1st Edition

Quick Changeover for Operators The SMED System

By Shigeo Shingo Copyright 1996
96 Pages
by Productivity Press

94 Pages
by Productivity Press

The powerful knowledge contained in this book can make your workplace more productive, your job simpler, and everything more satisfying. It's about how to do equipment or product changeovers in record time--often in less than 10 minutes. The method you'll learn here is called SMED, short for "Single-Minute Exchange of Die" (the "single" here means a single-digit number of... Read more
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Chart: SMED's Conceptual Stages and Practical Techniques
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Important Terms and Concepts
Chapter 3. Getting Ready for SMED
Chapter 4. Stage 1: Separating Internal and External Setup
Chapter 5. Stage 2: Converting Internal Setup to External Setup
Chapter 6. Stage 3: Streamlining All Aspects of the Setup Operation
Chapter 7. Reflections and Conclusions
About the Authors

Biography

Shigeo Shingo