Manufacturing company decided to produce smaller series of products and reduce manufacturing inventory. This resulted in bottlenecks due to more frequent and time consumnig changeovers. Throughout this final theses we followed lean principles to achieve the reduction of machine setup time. By implementig SMED and 5S methods into work area of the machine we managed to reduce worker's strain and reduce changeover time by 54,5 % which led to decrease in production cost and increase in machine avaliability and business productivity.
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