Benefits from a SMED application in a punching machine

Eric Costa, Sara Braganca, Rui Sousa, Anabela Alves

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)379–385
JournalWorld Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Volume7
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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