<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/17166" mdate="2013-09-05 00:00:00"> <author>Eric Costa and Sara Bragan莽a and Rui Sousa and Anabela Alves</author> <title>Benefits from a SMED Application in a Punching Machine</title> <pages>951 - 957</pages> <year>2013</year> <volume>7</volume> <number>5</number> <journal>International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/17166</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/77</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>This paper presents an application of the SingleMinute Exchange of Die (SMED) methodology to a turret punching machine in an elevators company, in Portugal. The work was developed during five months, in the ambit of a master thesis in Industrial Engineering and Management. The Lean Production tool SMED was applied to reduce setup times in order to improve the production flexibility of the machine. The main results obtained were a reduction of 64 in setup time (from 15.1 to 5.4min), 50 in workinprocess amount (from 12.8 to 6.4 days) and 99 in the distance traveled by the operator during the internal period (from 136.7 to 1.7m). These improvements correspond to gains of about &amp;amp;euro;7,315.38 per year. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 77, 2013</index> </article>