TY - JOUR
T1 - Benefits from a SMED application in a punching machine
AU - Costa, Eric
AU - Braganca, Sara
AU - Sousa, Rui
AU - Alves, Anabela
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper presents an application of the Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) methodology to a turret punching machine in an elevators company, in Portugal. The work was developed during five months, in the ambit of a master thesis in Industrial Engineering and Management. The Lean Production tool SMED was applied to reduce setup times in order to improve the production flexibility of the machine. The main results obtained were a reduction of 64% in setup time (from 15.1 to 5.4min), 50% in work-in-process amount (from 12.8 to 6.4 days) and 99% in the distance traveled by the operator during the internal period (from 136.7 to 1.7m). These improvements correspond to gains of about €7,315.38 per year.
AB - This paper presents an application of the Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) methodology to a turret punching machine in an elevators company, in Portugal. The work was developed during five months, in the ambit of a master thesis in Industrial Engineering and Management. The Lean Production tool SMED was applied to reduce setup times in order to improve the production flexibility of the machine. The main results obtained were a reduction of 64% in setup time (from 15.1 to 5.4min), 50% in work-in-process amount (from 12.8 to 6.4 days) and 99% in the distance traveled by the operator during the internal period (from 136.7 to 1.7m). These improvements correspond to gains of about €7,315.38 per year.
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.1088518
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.1088518
M3 - Article
VL - 7
SP - 379
EP - 385
JO - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
JF - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
IS - 5
ER -