Quick Changeover: The SMED Course

Module 1: Quick Changeover Overview Part 1

Learn what Quick Changeover and SMED are and why they are extremely important lean concepts for producers of any product or service.

Module 2: Quick Changeover Overview Part 2

Learn what the 8 steps to Quick Changeover are and how to go about them.

Module 3: Document Reality Part 1

Learn how to “capture” or document reality using tools like the video camera.

Module 4: Changeover Part 1

Watch Dawn, from Ram Technologies, complete an actual changeover of a press. This changeover will serve as the “before improvement” video for the rest of the course.

Module 5: Changeover Part 2

Part 2 of the Ram Changeover.

Module 6: Document Reality Part 2

Learn how to use the SMED analysis sheet by documenting what we witnessed in the “before improvement” Ram changeover video.

Module 7: Homework

It’s time to practice as we ask you how you’d improve the changeover using the principles you’ve already learned at Gemba Academy.

Module 8: Separate and Shift Internal to External

Learn how to transfer what was thought to be internal steps to external steps which radically reduces machine downtime.

Module 9: Streamline External Tasks and Identify Parallel Tasks

Learn how to streamline external tasks while also identifying internal tasks that can be done in parallel much like F1 or NASCAR pit crews do.

Module 10: Streamline Internal Tasks

Learn how to streamline internal tasks by eliminating waste like adjustments and motion.

Module 11: Practice New Setup and Document the New Standard

Learn how to practice and properly document the new and improved changeover.

Module 12: Ram Changeover After Improvements

Watch the new and improved changeover at Ram Technologies (66% improvement)