SMED – Changeover time reduction

Date: 03-04.11.2010, Autoliv Poland Sp. z o.o.

Speakers:
Thomas Keller (Plant Manager, Autoliv Poland Sp. z o.o.)
Jacek Till (APS Manager, Autoliv Poland Sp.z o.o.)
Łukasz Lesiński (Consultant, Staufen Polska)  

Why attend this seminar?

The reduction and prevention of set-up times is a permanent and important topic on the way to an efficient production, the so-called "flowing” production. In manufacturing companies which only produce according to market requirements, lot sizing and the optimisation of order succession mostly belong to the past. The market decides what to produce, when and how.
The problem, however, lies in the fact that just at a time when production is customer-oriented, the lot size decreases and the efficiency of the production is questioned. Therefore, it is essential to pave the way towards lot size “1” for production. Optimised material flow, the principle of one-piece flow, pull production (Kanban), prevention of idle periods and above all the reduction of set-up times are important approaches. They help you increase your flexibility, needed to produce exactly what the customer wants to have at a certain delivery date. We want to present organisational and cost-effective technical measures and generate ideas which help to successfully take the way towards "flowing production”.

Benefits

1. Learn of the importance of shorter set-up times for a lean and efficient 
    production system
2. Recognize wastage in the set-up process, be able to visualize it and provide
    measures for optimization independently (SMED+)
3. Know how to start an effective set-up improvement and how to end it
    consequently

Who should attend?

For people responsible for production, production engineers, segment leaders, masters and Continuous Improvement Process-experts

Agenda

Day 1

 9:00 Welcome and introduction
     >  Short presentation of  Autoliv and Staufen
     >  Success factors for the formula 1 set-up:
     >  Training of employees and optimization of their movements
     >  Optimization of work area and set-up in takt
     >  identification of internal and external changeover activities
     >  Creating changeover families and parallel changeovers by multiple  
         operators
     >  Optimization of products and machines design 
     >  SMED game
17:00 End of the day

Day 2:

 9:00 Welcome
      >  Changeover practical workshop
      >  teamwork preparation
      >  teams, roles and tasks
      >  Changeover analysis
      >  Work analysis
      >  Spaghetti chart
      >  Technology
      >  Presentation of analysis phase
      >  Designing new set-up procedure based on SMED methodology
      >  Presentation of ideal state
      >  Discussion and workshop summary
17:00 End of the workshop

During each day of the seminar two coffee break and lunch break will be provided.