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SMED

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

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In industrial engineering & manufacturing, SMED means: Short 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.

In Turkish: tek dakikada kalıp değişimi, hızlı ürün değişimi

How it is used

Developed by Shigeo Shingo. The key idea is to separate internal setup (possible only when the machine is stopped) from external setup (possible while it runs), then turn internal work into external work. Teams usually run a SMED workshop on one machine at a time.

Example sentences

  1. After the SMED workshop, mold changes on the injection machine went from 75 to 18 minutes.

  2. Using SMED, we moved die preheating outside the changeover.

Common collocations

  • SMED workshop
  • apply SMED
  • internal setup
  • external setup
  • quick changeover
  • setup timeThe 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.
  • batchA group of identical products made together in one production run, often with one batch number so it can be traced later.
  • lean manufacturingA way of running production that aims to deliver what the customer needs with the least waste of time, material and effort, based on the Toyota Production System.
  • OEEShort for overall equipment effectiveness: a percentage that shows how well a machine is used, calculated as availability × performance × quality.

More terms: Lean Manufacturing

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