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Workshop

Quick Changeover Using SMED Techniques

Streamline and standardize changeovers

Workshop Code: FW-04

Day & Time: Friday, Oct 19, 2012 - 8:00 AM

Length: 4 hours

Cost: $200.00 USD

Single Minutes Exchange of Dies (SMED) provides a quick and efficient way of converting a manufacturing process from running the current product to running the next product. The benefits of SMED include speeding both work in process and return on investment for capital equipment. All well and good, but many companies find it hard to implement SMED. That is where this workshop can help. It will explain why so many companies find it hard to implement changeover and teach you proven ways to make it easier to take full advantage of all that SMED has to offer.

In this workshop:

  • Hear why companies find changeover and set-up time a challenge.
  • Learn tried and proven step-by-step methods in set-up-time reduction.
  • Find out how to increase productive processing time in any operation.
  • Learn how to convert "internal" to "external" times/tasks.
  • Find out how to standardize the improved changeover methods to sustain gains forever.
  • See how SMED techniques are useful on both the shop floor and in office changeovers.
  • Learn lessons you can apply at your business.

Profero, Inc. / Alukal Partners, LLC

Established in 2002, Profero, Inc., is a consulting and training organization focused on lean enterprise, process improvement and quality. Its project approach includes the elimination of motion, defects, underutilized people and over-processing that may occur when your organization elects to partner with outside organizations. Profero coaches, guides and delivers excellence via quality and process improvement, including lean enterprise, lean healthcare, lean manufacturing, lean office and lean service.

 

Anthony Manos

Tony Manos is a catalyst with Profero, Inc., and provides lean implementation consulting services to its clients. Tony is co-author of the book Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process Improvement and author of many articles on lean and its allied subjects. He teaches lean enterprise and lean kaizen for the American Society for Quality and lean supply chain for the Purchasing Management Association of Canada. Tony is past Chair of the Lean Enterprise Division of ASQ. He is also a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, a member of AME and a Shingo Prize examiner for manufacturing excellence. Tony has presented at the AME Conference in Chicago, the regional AME conference in Covington, Kentucky and the AME conferences in Baltimore and Dallas.

George Alukal

George Alukal is the president of Alukal Partners, LLC, a management consulting and on-line training firm. George has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, quality and lean and has taught on various lean topics for ASQ and other organizations. George has published many articles on lean and is co-author of the book Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process Improvement. He delivers a one-day webinar on kaizen for ASQ and routinely speaks on lean at SME conferences. George is a member of the board of examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, has presented at the San Diego regional conference and twice co-presented at AME conferences in Chicago.

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