Course Objective:
To develop skills and techniques to define and analyse a set-up and to
carry out a set-up reduction activity.
Course Description:
This interactive two-day course will provide delegates with a thorough
understanding of set-up reduction principles. Through practical exercises
using live data from the shop floor delegates will learn how to collect and
analyse set-up data and how to perform a set-up reduction activity.
Course Programme:
The attendees of this course will learn the theoretical and practical skills
necessary to plan and carry out SMED activities. The course will cover the
following:
- Introduction to SMED
- Video recording a change-over/set-up
- Set-up analysis
Internal vs external set-up processes
- Streamlining the set-up process
- Right first time
Planning a SMED exercise
- Carrying out SMED exercises
The course will be a mixture of theory and practical exercises. The attendees
will be required to bring examples of set-up situations in their working day,
which they would like to make more efficient. Access to the workshop is a
prerequisite.
Suitable For:
Production managers, engineers, maintenance personnel, operators.
Why Attend:
If your machine
changeovers take
too long to cope
with the demand for
frequent
changeovers. If your
lead times suffer
because it takes
hours instead of
minutes to change
from product to the
next.