Author: Kenichi Sekine and Keisuke Arai
A gold mine of ideas for improving changeovers. Especially useful for managers and engineers, anyone who is a serious practitioner of quick changeover should have this book. It describes how to achieve faster changeovers in virtually any type of production environment. Picking up where Shingo's SMED book leaves off, you'll learn how to streamline the process even further to reduce changeover time and optimize staffing. Includes real-life examples and over 200 figures, photos and tables. CONTENTS: Part I: Basics; Steps in changeover improvement; Steps towards zero changeover; A formula for achieving zero changeover. Part II: Processing line changeover improvement approaches. Part III: Nine improvement case studies. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)
