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A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System 1st Edition

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Written by the industrial engineer who developed SMED (single-minute exchange of die) for Toyota, A Revolution in Manufacturing provides a full overview of this powerful just in time production tool. It offers the most complete and detailed instructions available anywhere for transforming a manufacturing environment in ways that will speed up production and make small lot inventories feasible. The author delves into both the theory and practice of the SMED system, explaining fundamentals as well as techniques for applying SMED. The critically acclaimed text is supported with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, as well as twelve chapter-length case studies.

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"One of the most thought provoking manufacturing books anyone can read. It is filled with excellent improvement solutions that have wide potential application."
―Ken Stork, Past President, AME Target, June 2004 "Dr. Shingo's visit to our plant was significant in making breakthroughs in productivity which we previously thought were impossible. The benefits that we are receiving are more far-reaching than I had personally anticipated. Because of Dr. Shingo's direction, we have been able to reduce changeover time from 4 to 5 hours to an average of 2.5 to 4 minutes."
― Gifford M. Brown, Plant Manager, Cleveland Engine Plants, Ford Motor Company, June 2004

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Productivity Press; 1st edition (April 1, 1985)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0915299038
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0915299034
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.92 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2023

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Learned lots of new concepts/Reminded of concepts i should be using

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016

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What an excellent book! I am a newer Industrial Engineer who came from a machining background. The book is a bit salty on price but you get what you pay for. I am currently trying to reduce our change-over time so we can further reduce our WIP and inventory. Granted, some of this stuff is what i learned in college, some is common sense, but its my strong conviction that everyone will get something that will more than justify the book. All the other stuff was good refreshment and reminders as i audit our setups which is why i recommend this book. Even if you learn nothing new (Which i doubt... but humor me) it sometimes isn't about learning something new, rather it is being reminded and applying something you already knew in a different way or application. Glad i bought it and i am already devising new ways to reduce/standardize our setups.

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D.R. Rosensteel

Great examples to shorten setup time

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2021

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This book is a classic. The examples of how to shorten setup time are so common-sense and simple. I don't know why every machine shop doesn't do this.

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018

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I have always enjoyed this subject. As an engineer redesigning equipment and processes has always been interesting. You learn how things work and how to make them better. This book outlines a step by step processes to do just that. Good book to learn from and train from.

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Wilbur Healey

and was in good condition. If you are reading this book for ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2015

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Book arrived in a timely manner, and was in good condition. If you are reading this book for smed ideas on injection molding, I would not recommend it. It has some good ideas and tips, but really does not go into detail on how to attain true set-up time reduction. Ok to read to understand the concepts, but lacks what I was looking for.

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018

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Book ordered was received as described and represented tremendous savings!

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G. T. Sipe

Founding father of IE.

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2017

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Along with Frederick Taylor, I consider Shigeo Shingo to be one of the founding fathers of Industrial Engineering.

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Bison Pumps

For inudstrial Engineers

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018

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What an excellent book. For newer Industrial Engineer it's constructive.

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Mr. G. Wilson

Interesting concept but a little too geeky

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2022

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I’ve had an interest in Japanese management for a while mainly because of its place in the chain of influence it has on modern software engineering. The chain starts with Taylorism and moves from there to Fordism -> Toyota Production System -> Lean -> Agile -> DevOps.

Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) was developed by Mr Shingo to eliminate waste in the process of setting up dies in manufacturing. His methods reduced set-up time from several hours to less than 10 minutes. It supported Taichi Ohno’s vision of one flow processes where multiple varieties of a product can be produced on demand rather than mass production of identical parts. For that reason, this book is interesting. However, it’s a technique very specific to manufacturing and I presume many of the examples described, although relevant for the period in which this book was published, is now dated. However, the concepts are very important and we can learn from Mr Shingo that it is possible to achieve extraordinary reductions in waste through analysing processes and making improvements that may not be evident.

For me, this book was too geeky and would probably be of greater interest to an historian of manufacturing. I found Mr Shingo’s A Study of the Toyota Production System a far more insightful and useful book to understand how lean evolved and how following a similar mindset can improve the way we deliver quality software.

Sergio Pasquini

Utilita' dello SMED

Reviewed in Italy on April 15, 2023

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Libro molto utile e adatto a chi vuole comprendere e usare i grandissimi vantaggi di questa moderna metodologia, nel libro sono illustrati molti esmpi pratici estremamenti utili.

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Derek D.

good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2020

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Good book for individual prospective on industry. But old regards 40 years ago. Possibly changes have been met but I doubt it.

Micha

Stimmige Methodik. Gute, wenn auch thematisch beschränkte Praxisbeispiele.

Reviewed in Germany on August 9, 2014

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Aus meiner Sicht ein hilfreiches Buch für Studium und Praxis.

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- sehr verständlich geschrieben
- gute Abbildungen
- gute und anschauliche Beispiele
- stimmige Methodik, die allgemein angewandt werden kann
- zitierfähige Literatur

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- Praxisbeispiele beziehen sich ausschließlich auf das Umformmaschinen der Blechverarbeitung, das ist wahrscheinlich dem Millieu geschuldet, in der die Methodik entstanden ist.

Fazit: die vorgestellte SMED-Methode befähigt den Leser kurze Rüstzeiten an jeder Anlage einzuführen. Die Trennung von internen und externen Rüstvorgängen klingt trivial. Das ist sie auch. Zu seiner Zeit aber revolutionär und vor allem immer noch zeitgemäß. Ich konnte mit dieser Methodik einen wirklichen Erfolg für das Unternehmen generieren, indem die Rüstzeit auf ein Bruchteil des Ausgangswerts reduziert wurde. Die technologische Recherche nimmt das Buch natürlich nicht ab.

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