Job Shop SMED: How to Reduce Set-up Times

Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is a Lean manufacturing technique designed to reduce changeover and setup times in production processes...

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How to Have Fun in Manufacturing

People don’t usually associate having fun with working in manufacturing. The typical perception of manufacturing is that manufacturing plant...

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SMED Internal and External Steps

In continuation of our previous blog about SMED. Here are Steps #3 and #4 that can be used to dramatically reduce changeover times on your p...

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