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Kaizen for Quick Changeover

Author: Kenichi Sekine

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This book improves on Shingo’s SMED method, targeting faster changeovers with fewer workers. It provides an 8-step plan to minimize setup time in any production environment, focusing on optimizing lines and eliminating waste through low-cost kaizen. It also explores streamlining processes to reduce movement and searching.

Description

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 and basic principles for eliminating changeover wasteThe 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.

Additional information

Dimensions 20.96 × 1.91 × 27.31 cm
ISBN

9781563273414

Page count

314 Pages

Edition

2006

Binding

Paperback

Language

English

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