Proposing a single minute exchange of dies in textile manufacturing industry

Rosli, Mohamad Muzammir (2015) Proposing a single minute exchange of dies in textile manufacturing industry. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Prym Industry is a textile manufacturing industry at Tanjung Keling, Melaka that manufactured and supply their products such as pins in domestic and also international marketing. One of the important departments in this company is the packaging department where it packaged all their products there. This study is about proposing Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) at the packaging department. It focused on reducing the time taken for the changeover of the packaging machine in order to improve the productivity of the machine. The objectives of this study are to observe the base change process of the packaging machine, differentiate the internal and external activities of current base change procedure and propose a plan for SMED implementation. Observation of the current changeover was by videotaping the whole process involved. Some of the data also obtained by interviewing the operators and technician involved in this machine changeover process. All activities have been classified into internal and external activities. Then SMED methodology had been used to convert as much as possible internal into external activities and streamline all the activities involved. Other lean tools and technique also have been used including 5S and andon to support model change process. From all the data taken, a new changeover procedure had been proposed to the company. As the result of this study, the total time taken for the new changeover that had been reduced to 11.6 minutes compared to the current changeover which was 36 minutes. For the conclusion, SMED methodology is an effective tool in reducing the changeover of the packaging machine.

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