11/10/2010

SMED SMED
Single Minute Exchange of Dies
Presented by:
AnumIqbal SaimaSaifullah

‡ It is the Lean tool used to create very fast changeovers and setups that greatly reduce machine downtime and increase throughput. ‡ Setup reduced to less than ten minutes. (single minute refers to single digit minute)

Implementation
‡ SMED projects rarely result in less than a 50% reduction in changeover time, and often as much as 80-90%. ‡ Maximizing internal activities ‡ Converting internal activities to external activities where possible ‡ Engineering or streamlining all remaining activities

11/10/2010

‡ Internal activities are those elements which have to be performed while production is stopped, the rest is external. ‡ This crucial distinction focuses improvement effort on performing only internal elements while production is stopped, and then simplifying those.