BLACKSMITH – Quick readjustment

or “How to Drastically Reduce Reconfiguration Time?“

Why BLACKSMITH – Quick readjustment?

• Downtimes for readjustment take too much time?
• Technicians do the readjustment differently?
• You waste machine-time for elementary activities, which are not well organized?
• A lot of mistakes and defects are allowed during reconfiguration?
• You don't have a standard for changing dies, tools, products?
• Or you just want to familiarize yourself with a methodology for reducing downtime.

What is BLACKSMITH?

SMED is one of the most important Lean tools to reduce reconfiguration time and eliminate waste in production. The traditional proi

production relies on large volumes of uniform production with little variety and less frequent adjustments. Today, the demands of customers in the industry require us to work with ever smaller volumes of orders with an ever greater variety of products. With this, the total downtime of the machines represents a large loss of efficiency. SMED is the modern answer to this challenge. The methodology was originally developed and implemented in Japan (at Mazda and Toyota), but today it is applied worldwide in all industries.

The main goals of BLACKSMITH with:

1.To reduce reset time to single digits (under 10 minutes).

2.To build a smooth production flow.

3.Make it possible to work with smaller orders.

4.To produce "Just in time" according to customer demand.

5.To eliminate waste in the process.

Through training:

We will introduce the SMED methodology in a comprehensible way;

We will get to know the typical problems during a reset;

We will find out how to make a roadmap for SMED implementation;

We will see working examples from practice for each step in SMED;

We will do a practical analysis of a readjustment process according to the methodology.

Audience:

Owners and senior managers. Managers at all levels in manufacturing, support and engineering departments (managers, n-k shift, team leaders). Production technologists, specialists in the field of production organization, the maintenance, job creation.

Learning aids used:

Presentation, including examples from the Bulgarian industry, case work, discussions with participants.