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Pythia Industries
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Going well

Cut changeover time with SMED

This week

  1. Keeping the next job's tools on a cart beside the press made job switches much faster. Press 7 has its cart, and press 12, still without one, was as slow as before.

  2. The next job's tools were already beside the press when it stopped, so no time went to fetching them.

  3. We watched this week's job switches on camera and matched them to the ERP job log. Press 7, with its tool cart, switched jobs about 25 minutes faster, and press 12 did not.

  4. One press is close to the goal with its tool cart, and the other presses are not faster yet.

    Since last week: The fetching found last week is gone on the press with a cart, but not yet on the other.

  5. Build a cart for the other press, and put two setup people on every switch on both.

    Who owns it: Setup lead (Mike Tran)

Week by week

  1. Week 1
  2. Week 2
  3. Week 3
  4. Week 4
  5. Week 5
  6. Week 6
  7. Week 7
  8. Week 8

Approved

41 days ago

Going well

5 of 6 weeks

Worth

$54K / yr

  1. Week 3Approved
  2. Week 3Work began on the presses that switch jobs most often, where faster switches free the most time.
  3. Week 4The cameras already record every job switch on the presses where work began, and the recordings were pulled.
  4. Week 5Timing each job switch showed much of it going to fetching while the press waited.
  5. Week 6This reportKeeping the next job's tools on a cart beside the press made job switches much faster.
  6. Week 7The second press now has its tool cart, but most of its job switches had one setup person and stayed slow.
  7. Week 8With two setup people on every job switch, the presses where work began had their fastest week yet.

Improvement: Cut changeover time with SMED