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

Does culture come before lean or does lean come before culture? It’s kind of a chicken or egg kind of question. Having implemented lean meth...

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SMED projects are so much fun and extremely beneficial in so many ways!

Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) also goes by the names Rapid C...

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...