Applying Lean Manufacturing Tools to Minimize the Setup Time

Preparing machines for production and set them up in the manufacturing industry is one of the most important steps that organization always trying to minimize its time. This paper document the implementation of lean manufacturing tool project in a manufacturing industry to reduce the time-wasting step and improving its productivity with the focus on the setup process. In this project, applying lean manufacturing tools helps to determine which type of machine has the highest setup time. Machines type 1 has the highest setup time with an average of 1.27 hour per setup with 24% of that time consumed only by the first three steps of the setup process. As result of applying lean manufacturing tools a reduction of 8% of the setup time were achieved.