Lean Manufacturing:
Setup Time Reduction
Cut Setup Times to a Fraction of their Current Length
Lengthy setup times for product line changeovers rob your company of salable production time and negatively affect your manufacturing capacity, product quality and costs. Left uncorrected, inefficient setup times will seriously damage your competitive edge.
Catalyst Connection’s Setup Time Reduction service can help you significantly cut setup times from hours – sometimes even days – often to a matter of minutes. Based on the Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) system, this service helps you minimize setup times by eliminating wasted motions and activities.
Our advisors work with your team to document and analyze your current setup steps, streamline your changeover processes, and implement rapid, effective setups. You’ll gain greater efficiency through:
- Greater flexibility in dealing with customers’ low-volume, high-variety demands
- Reduced setup times, rejects, rework and scrap
- Less work-in-process and finished goods inventory
- Increased available equipment capacity
- Faster throughput, reduced lead times and labor cost savings
The result? Increased satisfaction for your customers, larger profit margins for your company.
Results
Clients using our Setup Time Reduction service were successful in cutting equipment and operations setups to a matter of minutes resulting in less storage, less time between production runs, reduced lag time between order and delivered goods, heightened ability to produce to order and less need to produce to stock. In short, our Setup Time Reduction service helped clients achieve:
- Rapid deliveries to customers – a key competitive advantage
- Reduced overhead and operating costs
- Improved cash flow
- Increased availability of working capital
- Increased production capacity (both equipment and employee availability) to satisfy additional orders
CONTACT: F. Tracy Alim, Vice President,Consulting, 412.918.4284