Examples of SMED from daily life.

1. SMED Sighted
examples of SMED from daily life

2. Created 2012
by Tom Curtis
Blog: www.onimproving.blogspot.com
Presentations: www.slideshare.net/onimproving
Email: ideamerchants@gmail.com
Twitter: @onimproving

3. SMED
is
the practice of
externalizing,
eliminating,
reordering,
and
kaizening
steps in a process.

4. If we can recognize and see successful SMED
efforts we will improve where and how we SMED.
They exist in daily life.
Let’s review a bunch.
Each slide has an example and the question
“What steps were SMEDed?”

5. fast food
planted, grown,
instant food
& harvested food
frozen food
What steps were SMEDed?

6. self pick up delivery services
What steps were SMEDed?

7. mail delivery digital download
What steps were SMEDed?

8. tie shoes slip on shoes
What steps were SMEDed?

9. thinking and typing voice to text
What steps were SMEDed?

10. using real plates using paper plates
What steps were SMEDed?

11. email
memos
im
notes
text
What steps were SMEDed?

12. hand wash and line dry clothes washer and dryer
What steps were SMEDed?

13. cooking with a cooking with a
conventional oven microwave oven
What steps were SMEDed?

14. in person registration online registration
What steps were SMEDed?

15. hot water heated on hot water from a
the stove or by fire hot water heater
What steps were SMEDed?

16. generated and
delivered electric batteries
power
What steps were SMEDed?

17. grown and ground
packaged flour
flour
What steps were SMEDed?

18. the letter the telephone
What steps were SMEDed?

19. changing the
remote controls
channel at the TV
What steps were SMEDed?