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Setup time

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

nounCore term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, setup time means: The time needed to prepare a machine or line to produce a different product, from the last good part of one job to the first good part of the next.

In Turkish: hazırlık süresi, ayar süresi, ürün değişim süresi

How it is used

Closely linked to changeover, the act of switching products. Teams measure and reduce setup time because it is lost production, and it decides how small batches can be. SMED is the best-known method for cutting it.

Example sentences

  1. Setup time on the press is 90 minutes, so the planners run very large batches.

  2. Preparing the next die while the machine is still running cut our setup time to 25 minutes.

Common collocations

  • reduce setup time
  • long setup time
  • setup and changeover
  • setup time per batch
  • SMEDShort for single-minute exchange of die: a method for cutting changeover time to under ten minutes by doing as much setup work as possible while the machine is still running.
  • batchA group of identical products made together in one production run, often with one batch number so it can be traced later.
  • downtimeTime when a machine or line is not producing even though it is scheduled to, because of a breakdown, a changeover, missing material or another problem.
  • OEEShort for overall equipment effectiveness: a percentage that shows how well a machine is used, calculated as availability × performance × quality.

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