What is SMED
Single Minute Exchange of Die
BENEFITS
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Smaller lot sizes
- Improved responsiveness to customer demand
- Lower inventory levels
- Smoother startups
SMED is a setup reduction and quick changover system, designed to bring the changover time for a machine to less then 10 minutes. This will minimize the time that a process is down while being changed from one product to another.
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