Aplicação da metodologia single minute exchange of die a uma produção de poliestireno expandido

Abstract

The growing need to remain competitive in the market makes companies look for alternatives to eliminate the various waste present in their process and a tool of great value to achieve this goal is Lean Manufacturing. Based on the concepts of this tool, this work began with a literature review on the topic and its support tools. Among these tools, the importance of the Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) methodology was noteworthy and how it would be of great value to the process of manufacturing expanded polystyrene shims (EPS). Then a group was formed with various sectors involved in order to assess and verify the possible improvements that could be made in the process. Several time surveys were carried out, manually and through the history of the manufacturing system. With the times raised and the first actions proposed, meetings were held with the team to discuss and validate which proposals for improvements will go ahead. With the selected improvements, we went to the implementation and the main improvements implemented can be cited as the optimization of the setup information flow, the standardization in the mold change activity via instruction sheet, improvement in the mold assembly components and the organization in the tools used in the activity. After the improvements, new times and new evaluations of the activities carried out within the setup were raised. Subsequently, the analysis was carried out on the data from before and after the implementation of the methodology in the factory. Thus, it was possible to conclude the importance of using this tool in the process and the excellent results achieved with it.