1. RANO KHAN WASSAN - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Dawood university of Engineering and Technology,
Karachi, Pakistan.
2. JANSHER ANSARI - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Dawood university of Engineering and Technology,
Karachi, Pakistan.
3. ALI AKBAR - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Dawood university of Engineering and Technology,
Karachi, Pakistan.
4. SHUAIB KAKA - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Dawood university of Engineering and Technology,
Karachi, Pakistan.
5. UMAIR SARWAR - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Dawood university of Engineering and Technology,
Karachi, Pakistan.
6. ZAHID HUSSAIN HULIO - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Dawood university of Engineering and Technology,
Karachi, Pakistan.
Nowadays to meet the production demand in textile industry, setup time reduction is a big challenge for the companies. Moreover, product customization has been increasing which negatively affects the setup time. Thus, there is need of an effective technique which can reduce the setup time. Therefore, Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) has been proposed in this study, it allows to optimize the changeover activity. Moreover it helps these industries to have maximum production flow. To show the practical applicability of SMED, a case study has been carried out of the changeover activity of printing rotaries in processing department of a textile industry. The results of the study showed that, 36% reduction in setup time has been achieved i-e 7 minutes 42sec were reduced per change over. It increased the production by 2.21% per day, which benefited the company to achieve higher production.
SMED, Setup time, Textile industry.