Consumer Product companies want greater product variety, smaller delivery lot sizes, shorter lead times and lower costs. Manufacturing must embrace this reality by implementing truly flexible production environments. SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) is a key best practice tool to deliver the required flexibility.
Appropriate use of SMED will deliver shorter equipment changeover times or faster clean downs between batches and higher OEE (Overall Equipment Effectivenes). A cross-functional, multi-level SMED team, facilitated by BSM expertise will identify all of the Non Value Added activity in your changeover or clean down.
The SMED team will focus on executing 'preparatory tasks' before the end of the current production run, 'completion tasks' after the new production run is operational and other key tasks either in parallel with each other or in parallel with an essential machine cycle occurring during the changeover or cleaning routine.
The new process after a successful SMED project will include a fully documented and visual standard operating procedure, ongoing measurement of set-up times and the prominent display of your downward trend in changeover or clean down times!
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