SMED Implementation Steps

1. Separate the internal and external

activities
2. Convert internal setup activities to
external ones wherever possible
3. Eliminate the need for adjustment
4. Improve manual operations
5. Improve equipment
6. Monitor improvement
1. Separate the internal and external activities

 Identify all activities involved

 Separate activities into external and
internal
 Develop a method of completing all
external activities prior to the change
over
2. Convert internal setup activities to external activities

 Pre-arrange jigs, tools, dies and

materials(eg: pre heating of tools)
 Maintain good operating condition for
dies
 Maintain tidiness in storage areas
 3. Eliminate the need for adjustment

 Adjustments account for 50 to 70

percent of the total internal setup time
 Some initial adjustments may be
required
4. Improve manual operations
 Apply time and motion studies techniques
 Video tape the change over process for team to
analyze
 Eliminate the activities not absolutely necessary
 Eliminate the walking if possible
 Improve equipment
 Automatic adjustment
 Invent tools for setup reduction
 Modify equipment so that some setup activities
can be performed simultaneously
5. Improve equipment

 Use latest technology

 Use automation and CIM
6. Monitor Improvement

 Create an Improvement Chart

 Track the actual changeover time and
compare it with the target