Improving Changeover Performance. A Strategy for Becoming a Lean, Responsive Manufacturer

✍ Scribed by R.I. Mclntosh, S.J. Culley, A.R. Mileham and G.W. Owen (Auth.)

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'Improving Changeover Performance' is essential reading for managers, engineers and improvement practitioners working in manufacturing industries. It will also prove invaluable to original equipment manufacturers and postgraduates and academic researchers alike.

Increasing importance is being placed on responsive, flexible manufacture in multi-product industrial environments. The ability to changeover production facilities both quickly and to a high standard is a key component of just-in-time and lean manufacturing paradigms, which are increasingly being adopted as businesses strive to compete in today's volatile and congested markets.

Currently industry frequently adopts the SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) system, a well-established shop floor method to improve changeovers. This book takes a major step beyond the SMED system, by describing in much greater detail than hitherto the potential role of engineering design, of both substantive and non-substantive nature, to enhance changeovers. It also clearly sets out what better changeover performance can contribute to business competitiveness, and describes the many pitfalls that an improvement initiative can face.




Provides overall methodology for changeover improvementIncorporates design into SMED system Recommended by the IMechE Journal of Engineering Manufacture

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface, Pages ix-x
Acknowledgements, Page xi
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-15
2 - Manufacturing flexibility, Pages 16-46
3 - Addressing diverse changeover issues: An overall methodology for changeover improvement, Pages 47-106
4 - Financial benefit analysis, Pages 107-145
5 - The role of design, Pages 146-201
6 - Shopfloor issues: Changeover auditing, Pages 202-216
7 - Shopfloor issues: Develop an operational strategy; set local targets; implement; monitor, Pages 217-255
8 - Organization-led improvement techniques, Pages 256-274
9 - Design-led improvement techniques, Pages 275-293
10 - Case studies, Pages 294-323
Appendix 1 - Changeover terms, Pages 324-326
Appendix 2 - Acronyms, Page 327
Appendix 3 - Changeover audit sheet, Pages 328-330
Appendix 4 - Suggested classifications, Pages 331-332
Appendix 5 - Improvement option assessment sheet, Pages 333-334
Appendix 6 - Changeover improvement work plan, Pages 335-337
Index, Pages 339-351