Setup

The video above is from Lean Strategies International LLC's Quick Changeover with REDUCE Course.

  A setup is the work required to change a specific machine, resource, work center or line from making the last good piece of an item to making the first good piece of another item.  This includes the preparation and adjustments that are performed until the first good piece is processed.

• See also: Changeover.
• See also: Setup Time.

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