Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System

This book teaches frontline employees the techniques and approaches that turn hours of changeover time into minutes, even seconds! The method you'll learn in this book is called SMED, short for "Single-Minute Exchange of Die" (the "single" here means a single-digit number of minutes). The book presents an overview of the reasons why SMED is important for companies and employees, sets out the three basic stages of SMED, and then devotes a separate chapter to each of these stages. The first chapter of the book is like an "owner's manual" that tells you how to get the most out of your reading time by using the margin assists, summaries, and other features of the book to help pull out exactly what you need. More details...