Introduction
- Training format & objectives
- Outputs & expectations
Introduction to Rapid Changeover Techniques
- Objectives and benefits of rapid changeover techniques
- The concepts of Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
- What can you achieve?
Getting Ready for a Rapid Changeover Activity
- Identifying the opportunity and setting the goal
- Who to involve
- Preparing for the event
- Taking a ‘Kaizen’ Rapid Improvement Approach
- Rapid Improvement Event Preparation Checklist
Studying the Current State Changeover
- Capturing an measuring the current state
- Alternative techniques for observing the current process
- Recording the changeover process
- Capturing waste of motion
- Defining Internal vs. external work
- Exercise: Changeover simulation activity
Changeover Reduction Techniques
- Separating internal from external activities
- Techniques for converting internal to external
- Implementing function standardisation
- Use of intermediary jigs
- Implementing Parallel operations
- Eliminating adjustment
- Examples & case studies
- Exercise: Changeover simulation activity
Implementing the Improvements
- Generating and evaluating alternative improvement ideas
- Taking a structured approach to piloting the solutions
- Creating and Managing the action plan
- Putting tracking metrics in place
- The importance of standards
- Validating the improvement and replicating the opportunities
Course Summary and Review
