Changing things around

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  If you travel into any machine shop, office or hospital facility in the world guaranteed you have seen a changeover before.  The changeover occurs in between the last good part or service until the next good part or service.  Some examples would be:

1. Changing tooling.
2. Patients service completion.
3. Changing paper in a printer.
4. Taking one batch of cookies out of the oven in order to start a new batch.  

This "in-between" time is usually spent performing wasteful activities which often result in long changeovers that inevitably eat up value added time.

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