The Effectiveness of the Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) Technique for the Productivity Improvement

The Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED), a process-based innovation originally published in the mid-1980s, involves the separation and conversion of internal setup operations into external ones. Traditionally some of the manufacturing company facing the problem loss of available time due to spent time for the changeover processes. Changeover process time meaning changing the programming or operation sequences on the machine based on process requirement during the change from one to another one model especially for the mixing parts. SMED technique is a systematic approach that enables to reduce dramatically the