Setup / Changeover Reduction (SMED) 

Learn and deploy SMED (Single minute exchange of dies) Quick Change over techniques during a 4 to 5 day workshop.

We will help your team:

• Achieve a 50% setup time reduction during the workshop

• Save at lease 300% of workshop cost, or you pay nothing!

Your team will learn to:

• Minimize downtime due to setups and changeovers

• Identify & measure the 4 key functions of set-ups

• Identify and separate internal and external setup steps

• Implement the 9 Toyota SMED techniques

• "Spaghetti diagram" the setup process

• Video tape current setup processes

• Identify losses due to poor setup planning

• Eliminate losses due to unavailability of critical tools

This process yields immediate improvements in machine up-time, asset utilization and overall product throughput.