Implementation of SMED Technique to Reduce Setup Time of Bandsaw Cutting Machine

Abstract

In the manufacturing sector, there is a great competition, and to stay in the market, one needs to reduce the losses during manufacturing. One of the major losses during production is setup time of machine, which affects the delivery time, inventory, productivity & cost of product. We have selected a Bandsaw cutting machine for the setup time reduction with basic objective to reduced setup time by 50%. With implementation of SMED technique we could able to reduce setup time from 40 min to 10 min. SMED is one of the Lean manufacturing tools which used to reduce the setup time of machine.