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One of the improvement tools in manufacturing that defines an unique feature of the Toyota Production System is Quick Change Over, well known as the Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED). Reducing changeover time is a major objective of this approach by distinguishing between internal activities & external activities, and thereby providing improved measures for those activites to dwindle the total changeover time. This posts provides a practical example of an application of SMED in the reduction of changeover in a semi-automatic cutting machine.

Eventually, this SMED application was published as the scientific paper on The Journal of Agriculture and Development:

Nguyen, H. N., & Huynh, N. H. (2019). Optimizing equipment efficiency: An application of SMED methodology for SMEs. The Journal of Agriculture and Development 18(3), 1-9.

By going through this article, you are able to grasp key component of a typical improvement technique for the critical KPI of Overall Equipment Effectiveness:

1. Theoretical concept of OEE and SMED
2. A practical approach of SMED implementation
3. A practical data collection procedure of OEE
4. A practical case study in Footwear industry

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