100% Effective Changeovers – Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)

Overview / who should attend and why?

As part of any Lean deployment, reduction in inventory program or attempt to become more efficient in manufacturing requires the ability to change from producing one part to another as quickly as possible.  Traditional manufacturing companies manufacture in large batches, as they believe that changeovers cost money as they take a long time, need specialist resources and mean loss of production.  Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) is designed to enable changeovers to be done in a few minutes.  This course is designed to assist companies make there changeovers 100% effective, that is to say quick, easy and linked to your strategy for improvement.  The course will demonstrate why reduced changeovers are essential, what it would mean to your company, and of course how to implement quick changeovers.   Although designed for manufacturing companies, it can also be applied to non-manufacturing areas.  If you wish to concentrate on non-manufacturing changeovers then the course can be delivered with this focus.  

Course Objectives

• To explain the importance of quick changeovers in any organisation
• To enable delegates to understand the methodology for applying SMED
• To understand how to implement a SMED program in your organisation
• To demonstrate the benefits of SMED and how to calculate them in your organisation
• To understand common mistakes and how to over come them

Course Content

• Introduction and admin
• Why is quick changeover essential in today’s business
• The history of SMED
• The SMED methodology and how to reduce your changeovers – tools and techniques
• How to calculate the benefits
• Common mistakes and how to overcome them
• How to deploy a SMED program in your business
• Wrap up

Benefits of attendance

• Understanding of SMED and how to deploy it in your organisation
• Be able to explain and calculate the benefits of deploying SMED 
• Massive reduction in your changeovers leading to reduced inventory, improved customer service and improved responsiveness
• Change your working practises to begin to transform your organisation 

Costs / Duration and Location

• The cost of this training course is £400 per day
• The duration is one day 9:00 till 16:00
• Location will be determined by requests