Achieving Lean Changeover

Author : John R. Henry
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466589213
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Lean Changeover written by John R. Henry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another, changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility, but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work is about the practical implementation of the single minute exchange of die (SMED) philosophy developed by Shigeo Shingo at Toyota. Although the book is principally about changeover of manufacturing, packaging, and assembly processes, the general concepts and examples are also applicable in lighter industries that require turnover of processes including airlines, hospitals, operating rooms, and food service. Filled with practical examples, the book shares proven methods that can help you convert changeover downtime to productive uptime. It explains why reducing changeover time is important financially and provides a structured methodology to help you identify and implement improvement opportunities. The author addresses both the machinery issues with changeover/ SMED and the associated operational issues such as costs, waiting times, material movement, documentation, and product/component design. He also devotes a chapter to discussing, in detail, how to calculate the cost of changeover downtime, an area that remains a mystery to many. Taking a holistic approach to changeover, the text includes a chapter devoted to organizing changeover improvements, keeping them on track, and developing and implementing a formal changeover reduction program. Presenting time-tested methods and practical examples from a variety of industries, it offers you the opportunity to reduce changeover time and cost and provide your organization with the flexibility needed to better satisfy your customers in three important dimensions: product variety, responsiveness, and price.

Author : John Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Lean Changeover written by John Henry and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another, changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility, but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work is about the practical implementation of the single minute exchange of die (SMED) philosophy developed by Shigeo Shingo at Toyota. Although the book is principally about changeover of manufacturing, packaging, and assembly processes, the general concepts and examples are also applicable in lighter industries that require turnover of processes-including airlines, hospitals, operating rooms, and food service. Filled with practical examples, the book shares proven methods that can help you convert changeover downtime to productive uptime. It explains why reducing changeover time is important financially and provides a structured methodology to help you identify and implement improvement opportunities. The author addresses both the machinery issues with changeover/ SMED and the associated operational issues such as costs, waiting times, material movement, documentation, and product/component design. He also devotes a chapter to discussing, in detail, how to calculate the cost of changeover downtime, an area that remains a mystery to many. Taking a holistic approach to changeover, the text includes a chapter devoted to organizing changeover improvements, keeping them on track, and developing and implementing a formal changeover reduction program. Presenting time-tested methods and practical examples from a variety of industries, it offers you the opportunity to reduce changeover time and cost and provide your organization with the flexibility needed to better satisfy your customers in three important dimensions: product variety, responsiveness, and price.

Author : John R. Henry
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466501758
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Lean Changeover written by John R. Henry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another, changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility, but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour.Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work is about the practical implementation of the si

Author : John Henry
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500767372
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Lean Changeover Coursebook written by John Henry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Powerpoint slide deck used with John Henry's Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work workshop. Normally presented in your facility. It is a useful companion to the book Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work from Productivity Press.

Author : Ron Heiskell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000059960
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReducedEffort® Changeover written by Ron Heiskell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ReducedEffort® Changeover: The Lean Way to Quickly Reduce Changeover Downtime provides a step-by-step guide for conducting a Kaizen event that empowers the people who do the work to improve how that work is done. Packed with tips, tools, and examples, this practical guide begins with a clear description of the Lean principles underlying the ReducedEffort Changeover system. In addition, it explains how and why reducing the effort always reduces the time of converting a machine, line, or process from one product to another. In this book, you’ll find everything you need to quickly and dramatically reduce the effort and time of any process using the ReducedEffort method. This is not another book about how to do SMED. Like SMED, ReducedEffort Changeover (REC) does reduce changeover time, but REC is not SMED. SMED, Single Minute (or digit) Exchange of Dies, developed by Dr. Shigeo Shingo, has been the process used for many years by countless manufacturing plants to reduce changeover time. The SMED process was used in Toyota to reduce the changeover of a 1,000-ton stamping press from four hours to three minutes. As a Lean-based process, the REC system focuses on reducing the labor, not the time, involved in changing over a machine to work on a different product. With REC, there are no Standard Operation Combination Sheets to fill out and no Problem Identification Sheets to complete, and it does not require the arduous chore of timing every task, as SMED does. Very little capital investment is required with REC. Unlike SMED, it does not require management-approved funding to achieve substantial results. Because REC is not capital-driven, management does not need to drive the process. The operators will drive the process because it reduces their labor. One of the biggest advantages of REC over SMED is that operators will readily accept the process, and more important, they will want to sustain it. The reason for this is quite simple and will become evident when the REC process is defined. REC takes SMED to a new level that is easier and faster both to implement and to deliver sustainable results.

Author : Karsten Herr
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466596325
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quick Changeover Concepts Applied written by Karsten Herr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting from external to internal set-up steps and optimizing your set-up procedure is only the first step in achieving world-class performance. What’s most important is what comes next, cutting down internal set-up times and achieving changeovers that last only a few minutes. Quick Changeover Concepts Applied: Dramatically Reduce Set-Up Time and Increase Production Flexibility with SMED provides a comprehensive overview of changeovers from a strategic, tactical, and operational perspective. It outlines specific strategies that can help readers shorten internal set-up steps through the physical analysis of machine elements. The method presented is the result of a synthesis of Shigeo Shingo’s classic single-minute exchange of die (SMED) methodology with modern engineering techniques. Providing readers with the understanding required to significantly reduce internal set-up times, the book explains why efficient changeovers are critical to production scheduling. It redefines set-up and set-up time and details a step-by-step method for developing quick changeover methods in a manner where changes can be realized with minimal spending. Properly implemented, the quick changeover concepts presented, can help you reduce set-up times by up to 95 percent. The book uses language that is easy to understand to make it accessible to all functions along the value stream—from shop floor operators and industrial engineers to machine designers. It introduces the concept of systems engineering, explains the set-up process and its various elements, and addresses the financial aspects of set-up. Maintaining an analytical focus, the text describes the theoretical details and includes numerous application examples for every step. It also includes an extensive chapter on fasteners and connection material that presents alternative methods to connect elements that can save you valuable time.

Author : Keisuke Arai
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563273414
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaizen for Quick Changeover written by Keisuke Arai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changeovers in 3 minutes or less! Picking up where Dr. Shingo's Single Minute Exchange of Die left off, this book streamlines the process even further to reduce changeover time, while simultaneously cutting staffing requirements in half. To instruct on how to achieve quick changeover in virtually any type of production environment, the book includes— A succinct eight-step process for setup improvement Nine basic principles for eliminating changeover waste The book begins by outlining the tactical principles for improving the three phases of the changeover procedure. Next it demonstrates how to improve changeover on a processing line. All of the ideas presented are based on kaizen improvements, which require very little, if any, expenditure. Process razing and the implementation of one-piece flow are also examined as means to eliminate wasteful transportation and searching.

Author : Alor-Hernández, Giner
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522501312
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Managerial Strategies for Achieving Optimal Performance in Industrial Processes written by Alor-Hernández, Giner and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competitive advantage is a key factor to the success of any business in modern society. To achieve this goal, effective strategies for process improvement must be researched and implemented into an organization. The Handbook of Research on Managerial Strategies for Achieving Optimal Performance in Industrial Processes examines optimization techniques for improved business operations and procedures in the industrial sector. Highlighting management techniques, innovative approaches, and technological tools, this publication is an essential reference source for professionals, researchers, consultants, upper-level students, and academicians interested in the advancement of knowledge in industrial communities.

Author : Chris A. Ortiz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498788327
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick Changeover Playbook written by Chris A. Ortiz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the basics of setup reduction and quick changeover and data collection. It outlines the first pass of waste reduction through the implementation of the visual workplace and layout improvements. The book covers two quick changeover concepts: intermediate tooling and one-turn methods.

Author : Ron Heiskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692122020
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReducedEffort Changeover written by Ron Heiskell and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We worked with Ron to implement the ReducedEffort(r) process and saw a 30% output improvement after just three days. The real bonus came with the unleashing of employee engagement."- Nick Wilson, President of Morrison Container Handling Solutions; Past Chairman of Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI); Packaging Hall of Fame inductee "I really don't know if I can put a value on this training because this event will change my life for the next fifty to sixty years. This process could be applied to any and all aspects of work and life. Wow, what an eye-opening week!"- Brad Miller, Process Improvement Coordinator, major beverage bottler "Ron Heiskell and his ReducedEffort changeover philosophy has been so successful at our facility because it is highly relatable to the everyday worker and manager.... It is both simple and revolutionary." - Tony Coleman, Plant Manager, major beverage company "I just wanted to give you a quick update on our ReducedEffort Changeover progress. The changeover we did this afternoon was 40 minutes. Prior to the one week ReducedEffort Changeover event, the changeover time was 347 minutes."- Danielle Hess, Operations Manager, major extruder of plastics "Ron Heiskell has given the Lean world a gift: an opportunity to improve far beyond what anybody could fathom."- Paul Akers, 2 Second Lean, Lean Health, and Lean Travel "The operators in any given plant, in my opinion, know the machines better than anyone. They are, after all, the ones who have to deal with the equipment forty-plus hours a week. Ron has developed an ingenious way of bringing them together and putting their sometimes unheard ideas into action. I have seen machines go from four to five hour changeovers down to as little as twenty minutes! With his ReducedEffort changeover process I am always super confident when leading operators into a Kaizen event because there are always amazing results." - Mitch Zirkle, Improvement Methodologies leader, major bag manufacturing facility Slash changeover downtime in one week with ReducedEffort Changeover. It is the next generation of SMED and sets a new standard in rapid changeovers. ReducedEffort Changeover provides a step-by-step guide for conducting a Kaizen event that empowers the people who do the work to improve how that work is done. Packed with tips, tools, and examples, this practical handbook begins with a clear description of the Lean principles underlying the ReducedEffort Changeover system. Author Ron Heiskell also explains how and why reducing the effort always reduces the time of converting a machine, line, or process from one product to another. In this book, you'll find everything you need to quickly and dramatically reduce the effort and time of any process using the ReducedEffort(r) method.