Glossary

Quick Changeover

Quick Changeover is a process that allows a person to reduce the time to changeover a production process from making one part or product to another part or product. The process to reduce the time elapsed from the last good part A to the first good part B at the same station or process.

Quick Changeover is also referred to as SMED or Single Minute Exchange of Die.

This quick changeover process must take less than ten minutes (hence single minute).