Abstract:
This research presents an application of the Single Minutes Exchange of Dies (SMED)
in the machine setup in order to improve the Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) of the
production process. The analysis of the data revealed that the availability of equipment index was
82.40%, reducingthe OEE index to 81.54% which was lower than the target of 85%.
The Eliminate Combine Rearrange Simplify and SMED methodologies were utilized to alleviate
the hurdle and had led to the decrement of time to setup machine when changing models from
15.60 to 6.77 minutes per setup time. This reduction had improved the availability of equipment
index to 86.90%; thus, the OEE index had increased to 86.44%, which was above the target.
Consequently, the production rate of the process has been sufficiently increased to match with the
foreseen growth of demand in 2019.