• OEE and Kaizen for Setup

Set-up standardization and its impact on OEE

 04/02/2020
Productivity
By Dr. Alin Posteucă

Companies are aware that production planning has to take into account each type of set-up time.

Practitioners admit that they need set-up time standardization (SOP for set-up) for: (1) increasing flexibility and (2) continually improving set-up time. Sometimes, it is difficult for them to convince managers that for this set-up time no production should be planned (as with other scheduled downtime: waiting for materials, planned maintenance, etc.). Set-up standardization (SOP) is achieved through SMED (the path with small steps), MDC (the innovative path) etc.

But the set-up standard can generate significant variations. I often explain to practitioners that only negative variations, those that generate overtime, should be included in the OEE structure. For these variations, from a certain level upwards, I recommend the development of projects to solve problems (for example with A3) in order to re-fit into the set standard or KAIZEN projects to restore/improve the set-up standard.

So, to you, the SOP for set-up time are in the scheduled downtime structure? Is set-up overtime included in the OEE? Do you run problem solving projects and KAIZEN projects for set-up?

Source: Alin Posteuca on LinkedIn

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Strategic productivity and profitability consultant and researcher, Alin Posteucă, Ph.D., Ph.D. is transforming the way companies approach their strategic transformation. With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Posteucă has created effective concepts such as Strategic Kaizen, Takt Profit, KAIZENshiro Budgets and Costing. His research on production flow has led to innovative breakthroughs in strategic and operational productivity improvement.

Posteucă's investigation into typologies of losses and waste has identified feasible improvements that can achieve the ideal state of production flow, known as Synchronous Profitable Operations (SPO). His Takt Profit model allows the optimization of production planning, transforming profit per minute into objectives for strategic improvements achieved through Strategic Kaizen projects.

Posteucă's research has led to increased effectiveness in strategic improvements and has set the stage for future productivity in the world of manufacturing technology. He is laureate of the Romanian Academy of the "Traian Vuia" Prize, the highest scientific prize in Romania.