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por Rohit Kapote 4 anos atrás

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My SMED projects at Avtec (by Rohit Kapote) - Operations and supply Chain management by Filipe Amado

Avtec specializes in the manufacturing of precision-engineered products, focusing on powertrain and transmission components. Two significant projects involved optimizing machining processes for distinct transmission housings.

My SMED projects at Avtec (by Rohit Kapote) - Operations and supply Chain management by Filipe Amado

My SMED projects at Avtec (by Rohit Kapote) - Operations and supply Chain management by Filipe Amado

The Ending Note

Take aways
The understanding of out the lectures help me see a lot of examples where companies have benifited from lean
must in every industry
Difficult job to apply lean
Recommendation
Avtec cut time by several minute in SMED but due to their SMED incapability they could not be fully lean. I recommend to gather the resources to be leaner
Future
I see Lean tools as the major part of the smallest organisation simply because of its importance
SMED has a large scope at Avtec as Avtec is a old firm but facing a lot of new orders and demands. SMED is in the forefront to match them.
Applying SMED in Avtec was not an easy project. the main challenges were
Changing the CNC code
Standing and observing the machine for several hours everyday
Understanding complex Engineering Designs

Part 150210880

Drawing of Part 1502100880
Observation of the VMC Machine

Time (Total on the part)

Total Machining time: 75 minutes

Chamfering Tool

Milling Cutter

Reduction in time: 12 minutes per products

Total machining time: 63 minutes per product

After failure of the bigger cutter, new cutter was introduced with different specifications. Usage of new cutter produced lesser noise and effective operation.

Summary of the result

Rough Mill

Finish Mill

Operations involved

Drilling

Boring

Milling

The part is a CT100 Transmission Housing
A total of 180 parts made per month

Part 80001286

Drawing of Part 80001286
Observation of the VTL machine
Analysis of the Instruction Sheet

Time (total on the part)

Total Machining time: 80 minutes

Tools used

Finish tool

Single tool with different inserts

The result

Reduction in time: 15 minutes per product

Total machining time: 65 minutes per product

Signature of tool signature was changed in order to increase the tool travel and remove the CNC redundant commands in order to do the turning operation in optimum time.

Rough tool

Contains mainly turning operation

Finishing

Roughing

The part is a TT Transmission Housing
A total of 160 parts made per month

Part 6880090

Engineering Drawing of Part 6880090
Observation of the VMC machine
Analysis of the drawing

Time (total on the part & total on one hole)

Total Machining time/hole: 3,30min

Total Machining time: 28 mins

The tools used for the holes were:

Flat bottom Drill

8.55mm Carbide Drill

Single tool

The Result

Time reduce/hole: 1,5mins

Total machining time:13 mins! (Reduction by 15mins)

The Reason for using a Single Tool

The 3 tools had overlapping paths (overlapping was during change of the tools the tool went all the way down and came up to switch tools, the coming up was the redundancy) therefore combining the tools reduced tool path and therefore

Summary of the Result

Central Drilll

Slot Drill

They used 4 tools for the 4 operations

The drawing contains 8 holes with 4 operations on each hole

The part is a brake flange
A total of 140 parts made per month

About Avtec

Avtec ltd
What sectors are Avtec in?
precision-engineered products manufacturer
transmission components
Powertrain
Components made at AvTec

About SMED

Lean tools related to SMED
Genchi Gembutsu

Onsite Inspection of every machine is important in SMED because:

The founder of SMED started the process with Genchi Genbutsu

Employee can be organised

inorder to reduce time employees reduce quality which is not desirable

What is Genchi Genbutsu?

Subtopic

Kaizen

Many firms hold Kaizen meets to reduce SMED

Many firm need to meet the changing demand of the current world, therefore they need to change and thus Kaizen is used to change the production time in SMED

What is kaizen?

The change for the good

5S

Why is it important when applying SMED

keeping the right mechanical tools sorted can help you with reducing the time.

Easier observation because of 5S

SMED is a very complex process, and if we don't apply 5S principle everything will get messy.

What is 5S?

Everything has a place and a place for everything, this is a cleaning too to keep your work environment health and in order using these 5 s

Examples of SMED
Best SMED practises in companies

Toyata and SMED -https://bit.ly/2TG7agn

The Effect of SMED on Benefits Gained in Maquiladora Industry -https://bit.ly/38h62nw

Article on applying SMED in Turret punching machine-https://bit.ly/30ANXya

Everyday example

This is a simple video of a father changing the diaper of his child, it is a simple understanding of what SMED is.

Industrial examples

In this video we the practical industrial application of how dies are being changed without the application of SMED and then with the application of SMED the amount of time reduced

How to imply SMED
Video

In this short video we learn that

SMED converted large changeover time of 4-6 hours to single minute exchanges!

There are 6 steps to make this happen:

Repeat 3-4 steps continuously

Reduce the time of exertenal activity

Reduce the time of internal activities

Change internal to external - Reduce waste

observe the process

External process

changes when the machine is running

Internal process

changes when the machine is not operating

Start with 5S

nowadays the costumers are demainding smaller batches and higher frequency meaning we have to minimise the waste in the process

We require SMED when changing from product A to product B on a machine this is called changeover

What Is SMED

Why did I choose this topic?