SMED Training Course

SMED Training Course

This one day SMED training course is a must for all Production Managers, Supervisors and Engineers who utilise automated plant and machinery. The implementation of Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) enables a company to achieve a smooth flow of value on a production line that produces multi-variants by providing a method which minimises waste caused at the point of change over.

What you will learn

This course has been designed to address the key SMED principles and provide you with tools, tips and techniques to bring about systematic set up reduction in your business by:-

• Providing a method for ‘learning to how to see’ waste within you machine areas and set-up operations
• Highlighting non-value adding waste by mapping out the set-up/change over process
• Helping you to differentiate between internal & external set-up time
• Providing a range of ideas and techniques for converting internal to external set-up time
• Showing you how to implement Set-Up Kaizens – giving you the skills to develop a sustainable SMED programme in your business

Course Content

Our Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) training course covers the following topics:-

• SMED – Introduction & Definitions
• 7 Wastes – A review of waste in your business
• The benefits of Introducing SMED
• SMED – The Three Stages
• Stage One: Data Collection – Observation & Recording
  • Using Video to record Set-Ups
  • Separation of Internal and External Set-Up time
• Stage Two: Conversion of Internal to External Set-Up Time
  • Function Checks & Transportation
  • Next operation preparations & Standardisation
  • Direct Line Feed (DLF)
  • Standard Work
  • Cell Manufacturing
• Stage Three: Kaizen activities to refine the process
  • Parallel Operations
  • Functional Clamps
  • Eliminating Adjustments
• SMED Leadership
• Getting Buy-in from your team

This SMED course uses practical demonstrations to re-enforce the theory.