Development and implementation of setup time reduction strategies for a 700-ton Danley progressive die press

Setup time reduction is one of the principle forces enabling lean manufacturing. This thesis documents the formulation and reduction to practice of two stages of a setup time reduction strategy for a 700-ton Danley progressive die press. Common methodologies of setup time reduction were presented and discussed, with the purpose of developing a general algebra for setup reduction. The algebra was applied to develop a specific strategy for setup time reduction of a 700-ton Danley progressive die press. Attempts were then made to reduce the strategy to practice.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1999

Author dc:creator

• Souke, Chad C. (Chad Conway), 1976-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• David Cochran.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9356

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/9356