SMED Lean Manufacturing Quiz

What is the goal of changeover in manufacturing?

• Increase efficiency

• Reduce quality

• Maintain status quo

• Ignore productivity

Why is reducing changeover time essential?

• To complicate processes

• To decrease efficiency

• To increase productivity

• To slow down production

How can companies improve efficiency in the production process?

• By reducing changeover time

• By complicating changeover time

• By ignoring changeover time

• By increasing changeover time

What is the main focus of reducing changeover time?

• Increase productivity

• Ignore productivity

• Decrease efficiency

• Maintain status quo

What is the time measured as in changeover process?

• Time between days

• Time between breaks

• Time between shifts

• Time between last and first piece

What is the technique focused on reducing changeover time to less than 10 minutes?

• Single Minute Exchange of Dye (SMED)

• Double Hour Exchange of Dye (DHED)

• Quadruple Day Exchange of Dye (QDED)

• Triple Second Exchange of Dye (TSED)

What is the main focus of SMED?

• Reducing changeover time

• Increasing changeover time

• Maintaining changeover time

• Ignoring changeover time

What is the goal of reducing changeover time to less than 10 minutes?

• Increase efficiency

• Maintain status quo

• Ignore efficiency

• Reduce productivity

How does SMED help in reducing changeover time?

• By speeding up the process

• By ignoring the process

• By complicating the process

• By breaking down the process

What does SMED stand for?

• Single Minute Exchange of Dye

• Simple Minute Exchange of Dye

• Speedy Minute Exchange of Dye

• Super Minute Exchange of Dye