Formula 1 in the
environment Lean: the SMED System
Do you like Formula 1? Or some
other category of Motorsport?
Have you ever noticed the way the pit-stop?
Pit-stop is the moment that the car is headed
to the box so that the mechanics and team professionals make the exchange of
tires, refueling and, sometimes, a broken piece.
In some seasons saw the pit-stop performance:
fast and exemption of errors, was instrumental in the campaign that defined the
rider and team champions.
In a company can make the analogy of pit-stop
with our set-up processes.
Setup is the process of changing a setting
equipment to produce a particular product. That is, considers the time after production
of the last part of the previous reference to the production of the first part
with quality and efficiency next reference.
The setup includes the exchange of tools,
moulds, fasteners, other components; your settings; heating; stabilization,
etc., that is, until the beginning of the next consignment efficient
production.
The setups are often restrictions on lawsuits.
By the time required for the Exchange to produce large batches of product, even
if most of the parts produced to be sold.
As a result, the setup long causes swelling
inventories and little flexibility in a changing demand.
The idea of making an effective setup was
developed in Japan by Shigeo Shingo, a brilliant engineer, who developed a
technique called SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die, translated as exchange of
Moulds in A Digit of Minute, i.e. up to 9 minutes and 59 seconds).
This technique is developed in stages:
1. Studying the work of setup.
2. Separate setup activities that are
carried out with the machine down (internally), and activities of setups that
can be performed with the machine in operation (external elements).
3. Reduce the internal elements.
4. Reduce the external elements.
The SMED system was applied
initially in presses and injection moulding machines, but quickly was applied
in various equipment and processes such as milling machines, extruders, welding
machines, formulation and bottling processes, processes in the textile industry
and even in hotels and hospitals.
Do you know how to reduce the setup
time? How to ensure the sustainability of this reduction of time?
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optimization of time ideas, organization of materials and standardization.
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Article
prepared by Anderson Carmo, Director of Continuous Improvement, Lean Brazil
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