Publisher's Preface Foreword Introduction PART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE SMED SYSTEM 1. The Structure of Production 2. Setup Operations in the Past 3. Fundamentals of SMED 4. Techniques for Applying SMED 5. Applying SMED to Internal Operations 6. Basic Examples of SMED 7. Effects of SMED PART TWO: THE SMED SYSTEM -- CASE STUDIES 8. Implementing SMED Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Washing Machine Division (Mikuni Plant) 9. Setup Improvements Based on the Toyota Production System Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. 10. A Quick-Setting ("Q-S") Campaign Nippon Kogaku K.K. (Oi Plant) 11. Using SMED on a Farm Machinery Processing Line Kubota, Ltd. (Sakai Plant) 12. Setup Improvements Based on Shop Circle Activities Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd. 13. Comprehensive Development of the SMED Concept to Include Affiliated Plants Arakawa Auto Body Industries K.K. 14. SMED Developments in Producing Slide Bearings T.H. Kogyo K.K. 15. Examples and Effects of the SMED System Glory Industries K.K. 16. Achievement of SMED Through Company-Wide Activities Kyoei Kogyo K.K. 17. SMED in Tire Manufacturing Processes Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd. 18. Using SMED for Aluminum Die-Casting Dies Tsuta Machine and Metals Co., Ltd. 19. The Shingo One-Touch Die Exchange System: The Boltless Method Postscript About the Author Index

A revolution in manufacturing : the SMED system

The purpose of this paper is 1) to investigate the effects on the crucial Industry 40 technological innovations that interact between the real and virtual worlds and that are applied in the sustainable supply chain process; 2) to contribute to the identification of the opportunities, the challenges and the gaps that will support the new research study developments and 3) to analyze the impact of the Industry 40 technologies as facilitators of the sustainable supply chain performance in the midst of the Coronavirus (COVID-19),This research is performed through a bibliographic review in the electronic databases of the Emerald Insight, the Scopus and the Web of Science, considering the main scientific publications on the subject,The bibliographic search results in 526 articles, followed by two sequential filters for deleting the duplicate articles (resulting in 487 articles) and for selecting the most relevant articles (resulting in 150 articles),This article identifies the opportunities and the challenges focused on the emerging Industry 40 theme The opportunities can contribute to the sustainable performance of the supply chains and their territories The Industry 40 can also generate challenges like the social inequalities related to the position of the man in the labor market by replacing the human workforce with the machines Therefore, the man-machine relationship in the Industry 40 era is analyzed as a gap in the literature Therefore, as a way to fill this gap, the authors of this article suggest the exploration of the research focused on the Society 50 Also known as “super-smart society,” this recent theme appeared in Japan in April 2016 According to Fukuda (2020), in addition to the focus on the technological development, the Society 50 also aims at the quality of life and the social challenge resolutions,This article contributes to the analysis of the Industry 40 technologies as facilitators in the sustainable supply chain performance It addresses the impacts of the Industry 40 technologies applied to the supply chains in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it analyzes the research gaps and limitations found in the literature The result of this study can add value and stimulate new research studies related to the application of the Industry 40 technologies as facilitators in the supply chain sustainable performance It can encourage the studies related to the COVID-19 impacts on the sustainable supply chains, and it can promote the research development on the relationship among the man, the machine and the labor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJPPM-03-2020-0137/full/pdf?title=applying-industry-40-technologies-in-the-covid19-sustainable-chains

Applying Industry 4.0 technologies in the COVID–19 sustainable chains

Academic literature on Lean Manufacturing (LM) is widely available. However, due to its fragmentation, the contribution of LM from practical and academic perspectives is controversial. This paper e...

Practical implications and future research agenda of lean manufacturing: a systematic literature review

The demand for perishable products in emerging markets has been increasing. However, the perishability of products brings tremendous challenges for firms to build a sustainable supply chain. In this paper, we propose an integrated model of location-inventory-routing for perishable products, considering the factors of carbon emissions and product freshness. First, the economic cost, carbon emission levels, and freshness of the perishable products are analyzed. Second, with the goals of achieving the lowest economic cost and carbon emissions and the highest product freshness, a multi-objective planning model is developed, and constraints are established based on the actual location-inventory-routing situation. Third, the YALMIP toolbox is used to solve the model, and the optimal solution to this complex multi-objective problem is obtained. Finally, the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method are verified by the case study, as well as the sensitivity vehicle speed to the results. It is found that the integrated model proposed in this paper is able to significantly improve the efficiency of perishable goods supply chain management from the perspective of global optimization, and vehicle speed is able to significantly affect economic costs and carbon emissions.

Sustainable supply chain management for perishable products in emerging markets: An integrated location-inventory-routing model

As a proactive risk management instrument, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) has been broadly utilized to recognize, evaluate and eliminate failure modes of products, processes, systems and services. Nevertheless, the conventional FMEA method suffers from many important deficiencies when used in the real world. First, crisp numbers are adopted to describe the risk of failure modes; but, in many practical situations, it is difficult to obtain exact assessment values due to inherent vagueness in the human judgments. Second, the priority ranking of failure modes is determined based on the risk priority number (RPN), which is questionable and strongly sensitive to the variation of risk factor ratings. Therefore, this paper applies linguistic distribution assessments to represent FMEA team members’ risk evaluation information and employs an improved TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multicriteria decision making) method to determine the risk priority of failure modes. Furthermore, both subjective weights and objective weights of risk factors are taken into account while conducting the risk analysis process. Finally, an empirical case concerning the risk evaluation of a grinding wheel system is presented to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed new FMEA model.

New Approach for Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Using Linguistic Distribution Assessments and Todim Method

The present paper proposes a modified version of the Manufacturing cost deployment (MCD) method to analyse engineer-to-order (ETO) production systems. The novel approach, named Project cost deploym...

Lean manufacturing tool in engineer-to-order environment: Project cost deployment

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new Lean metric named Overall Task Effectiveness (OTE), which can help analyst to define target task times and to identify the hidden losses that account for most of the recorded time of manual assembly activities.,An alternative classification structure of the losses is developed to divide them in two classes. In the first one the losses that are external to the project order are included, and in the other one those due to inefficiencies directly ascribable to the project order are considered. Starting from this classification structure of the losses, a novel Lean metric, inspired from the well-known Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), is developed to evaluate the effectiveness of a manual assembly task. A case study, which briefly explains the methodology and illustrates the capability of the corresponding metric, is provided.,This tool can be considered a suitable method to achieve simultaneously a dual purpose to establish time standards and to identify the hidden losses that account for most of the recorded time of manual assembly activities, estimating the impacts of potential corrective actions in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness.,OTE provides practitioners with an operative tool useful to highlight the points where the major inefficiencies take place in industries producing large complex items via manual assembly lines. Its practical application is demonstrated using a case study concerning a manufacturer of train wagons.,One distinctive, and contemporarily appealing, feature of OTE with respect to other analogous KPIs is that it provides a breakdown structure for process losses that simplifies the task of evaluating the current performances and, at the same time, individuates both the source of losses and the corresponding corrective actions.

Overall Task Effectiveness: a new Lean performance indicator in engineer-to-order environment

A continuous review, (Q, r) inventory model for a deteriorating item with random demand and positive lead time

The purpose of this paper is to present a structured framework whose objectives are to identify, analyse and eliminate fashion-luxury supply chains inefficiencies.,A Lean Manufacturing tool, the 5-Whys Analysis, has been used to find out the root causes associated with the problem identified from a data analysis of production orders of a fashion-luxury company. A case study, which explains the methodology and illustrates the capability of the tool, is provided.,This tool can be considered a suitable instrument to identify the causal factors of inefficiencies within luxury supply chains, suggesting potential countermeasures able to eliminate the problems previously highlighted. In addition, enabling technologies that deal with Industry 4.0 are associated with the root causes to enable further improvement of the supply chain.,The effectiveness and practicality of the tool are illustrated using an industrial case study concerning an international Italian signature in the world of fashion-luxury footwear sector.,This framework provides practitioners with an operative tool useful to highlight where the major inefficiencies of fashion-luxury supply chains take place and, at the same time, individuates both the root causes of inefficiencies and the corresponding corrective actions, even considering Industry 4.0 enabling technologies.

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Managerial and Industry 4.0 solutions for fashion supply chains

Construction projects are often unique, time-limited and require a high degree of customization by involving a significant number of Engineer-to-Order (ETO) components. Usually, ETO construction su...

Overall Construction Productivity: a new lean metric to identify construction losses and analyse their causes in Engineer-to-Order construction supply chains

Leonardo Marrazzini

Papers

Lean manufacturing tool in engineer-to-order environment: Project cost deployment

Overall Task Effectiveness: a new Lean performance indicator in engineer-to-order environment

A continuous review, (Q, r) inventory model for a deteriorating item with random demand and positive lead time

Managerial and Industry 4.0 solutions for fashion supply chains

Overall Construction Productivity: a new lean metric to identify construction losses and analyse their causes in Engineer-to-Order construction supply chains