Business Excellence Consortium

Setup Reduction

Improve cleanliness, organization and safety in your workplace!

The BEC is offering a half-day session on Setup Reduction. This session addresses the need for faster setup times in the manufacturing process. Reducing setup times increases production capacity and improves customer satisfaction without adding resources and increasing costs.

Pre-requisite: Overview of Lean must be taken prior to attending Setup Reduction.

Setup Reduction course content includes:

• How setup reduction decreases inventory and increases quality
• Definitions of setup time as well as internal and external elements of setup time
• The four goals of setup reduction
• The seven rules of setup reduction
• Continuous improvement of the setup process

Upon completion of the BEC's Setup Reduction, participants will be able to:

• Define the setup reduction process
• Identify opportunity areas for setup reduction
• Learn how 5S/Visual Enterprise positively impacts setup reduction

The Business Excellence Consortium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering has partnered with WCM Associates, a consulting and book publishing company, dedicated to the dissemination and the implementation of advanced techniques of world class manufacturing. This partnership combines real world experience with a proven method of knowledge transfer resulting in high impact training and implementation support!