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The paper describes the application of SMED methodology in a chosen enterprise dealing with production of deep drawn steel parts for automotive industry. Acronym SMED stands for Single Minute Exchange of Die. The main goal of SMED methodology is to reduce the time needed for tool exchange and adjustment. Radical shortening of these times, for instance from several hours to a few minutes, is achieved progressively by changes in the tool exchange organization, standardization of the tool exchange procedures, staff training, special aids and technical modifications of the tool or the press machine. The aim is to move as many internal activities as possible into external. The internal activities are those that are done during machine shutdown, the external activities are done while the machine is running. The goal of this paper is to describe the process of SMED methodology application within the production of deep drawn parts for automotive industry. The instrument used to achieve the intended aim is detailed analysis of above defined sequence of SMED system steps.
Keywords: deep drawn stamping, SMED system, external activities, internal activities, changeover time© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.