Manage Time:
Reduce Setup or Startup Time
Time can be lost and costs increased getting ready to produce a product or service. Setup times can often be cut in half, just by getting organized for the setup. The ability to minimize setup or startup time allows the organization to maintain lower levels of inventory and get more productivity out of its assets. One approach to reducing setup time incorporates four steps:
- Define time internal to the setup and time external to the setup.
- Do all of the external work ahead of time.
- Convert additional internal time to external.
- Improve the processes affecting the internal time.
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