Quick Change - Lean Manufacturing

"Increase Your
Productivity and Quality
While Reducing Your
Lead Times and Inventories"

Your operation can benefit from Quick Changeover techniques if you are experiencing any of the following problems:

Frequent schedule changes causing excessive set-up costs
Unacceptable delivery, lead times, and customer satisfaction
Excessive in-house manufacturing cycle times causing the sales forecast horizon to be too far in the future to be reliable
Inability to produce small customer orders without charging for set-ups
Exorbitant raw material and work-in-process inventories
Wasted floor space to store WIP inventories
Justifying funds to rent/buy additional warehouse space, racks, lift trucks and indirect labour

Results
In many organizations, the reduction of set-up can be the key to improved productivity, customer service, and inventory reduction. We have helped numerous clients achieve dramatic reductions in areas such as:

W.I.P. Inventory
Factory lead times
Factory floor space requirements

Set-up Reduction
Examples

6 High Cold Rolling Mill	86%
110 Ton Verson Press	97%
Resistance Welding M/c	100%
Printing Press	81%
Forging Press	68%
400-Ton Stamping Press	94%
C.N.C. Machining Centers	92%
600-Ton Coil Fed Blow Press	79%
Homag Trim and Edge Band	78%
Tube Straightening & Cut Off	84%
Injection Moulding	74%
Zinc Die Casting	71%

How Quick Changeover Works

We train the set-up team(s) in quick set-up techniques that will enable them to reduce set-ups on any piece of equipment in your plant.
Our clients normally experience a minimum of 50% reductions!