The Set-Up Process

Abstract

To prepare the machines to make the product that client needs and to give him the product in the necessary moment is the objective of all companies. This means to have all machines prepared to make the product, it means that the productive system has not problems to make the product and this complies the quality standards. To have prepared the machines to make a product at some point it is the objective of set-up process. If this process is correct performed, the machines will make the product without problems, but if the set-up process is not performed in correct way, then the posterior productive step will have many problems. Perhaps, the set-up process is the more important productivity activity. The time necessary to perform the set-up process is the parameter to minimize, with the process cost, and this time says the flexibility level of the productive process of the factory.