Advantage of Implementing SMED

Reduction in setup time by nearly 50% Improved flexibility of manufacturing Decrease in inventory at all the stages. Ease in training of operators to perform the job.

Introduction:
Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) as the acronym goes is improvement program undertaken aimed at minimizing the time required for setting up a die or a production process.

The objective is of quick change over of the existing product processing to a new product.

This leads to greater flexibility in manufacturing, SMED is a;so refered as Quick Changeover.

The aims also include fewer parts wasted in setting up the process.

Imagine a race car pit stop and you would get the idea with SMED / Quick Changeover.
The race car pit has team which has synchronized the activities and derived at an optimum sequence of operations so that the entire process is performed in the least possible time.

CQM approach:
CQM has an expert team of consultants who help to attain this objective.

The program can be in two forms

1. To train and undertake a pilot project to understand and help understand the implementation of the concept.
   
2. A comprehensive program of organization wide implementation covering the entire range of processes involved.

Working with the automobile industry for a long time ha shoned our expertise in the lean concept and smed is one such lean concept.

All the above can be put in the framework of financial gains