SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) is a lean manufacturing technique that can be applied to various everyday activities to make them more efficient. The document describes 4 everyday activities - changing a light bulb, refilling a coffee machine, charging a mobile phone, and covering a vehicle - and suggests applying SMED to analyze and improve the processes involved in each one to make them faster and more streamlined.
SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) is a lean manufacturing technique that can be applied to various everyday activities to make them more efficient. The document describes 4 everyday activities - changing a light bulb, refilling a coffee machine, charging a mobile phone, and covering a vehicle - and suggests applying SMED to analyze and improve the processes involved in each one to make them faster and more streamlined.
SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) is a lean manufacturing technique that can be applied to various everyday activities to make them more efficient. The document describes 4 everyday activities - changing a light bulb, refilling a coffee machine, charging a mobile phone, and covering a vehicle - and suggests applying SMED to analyze and improve the processes involved in each one to make them faster and more streamlined.
chores/activities. Some activities take huge time for completion and some take very less. SMED is a universal tool that can be applied anywhere from the shop floor of manufacturing plants to your kitchen’s cooking top! SMED CASE STUDY
Activity 1- Changing a LED Bulb/Tube Light at your home
Exchanging the bulb or tube always
tedious job Because of height. Therefore we have to prepare to put ladder or stepup device Apply SMED for full process SMED CASE STUDY Activity 2- Quick Changeover Coffee Most companies and offices have coffee machines. It is usually the responsibility of the office to service and maintain the machine. This cleaning /refilling / maintaining is an exercise . Analyze the process to refill water, coffee powder or beans, and milk. Look for internal and external processes, separate them, improve them SMED CASE STUDY Activity 3- Setting up the Mobile charging Most of the time while using charger we always keep mobile loose handedly which many time cause either damage of pin or mishandling of mobile suggest and complete SMED for above SMED CASE STUDY Activity 4- Covering up the four wheeler Most of the time while covering the four wheeler, many actions to be required e.g. collecting cover, unfolding the cover, maintain the direction to cover the car etc. Suggest and do SMED to foolproof and fast covering of car