Rajat Sharma
Dr. RM Belokar
Abstract
In manufacturing world we find many typical situation in industries due to which we are lacking in competition globally i.e. immediate customer order has received for a product but company is not able to cater that, due to limitation in manufacturing inability. This paper presents the improvement illustration of the internal setup process of the water jet cutting machine by using Single Minute exchange of die in a project industry. Five month was the time duration for accomplishing the industrial project for master thesis. The implementation of SMED methodology counters the abnormalities of the process to increase efficiency, waste reduction and cycle time reduction. The objectives of the project has been achieved by reducing the setup time up to 23%, more than 90% reduction of recurring cost for slurry removal and 72% reduction of operators movements. The improvement of slurry removal corresponds to gain of approximately 6 lakh (605600/-). The approach to implement SMED methodology eliminates 7 deadly wastes and increase output efficiency.
Keywords- Lean manufacturing, SMED, Internal & External setup, Setup time