Computer-Aided Analysis and Planning of Set-Up Process

Abstract To adapt the consequence of set-up time for the manufacturing process and the enterprise success, it is necessary to consider systematically the set-up process in the production. The paper shows a method, which enables to analyse the set-up process and derive measures for set-up time reduction upon the basis of ascertained weakness. The necessity of the planning of the set-up process in analogy to manufacturing process results from the existing problems in the set-up organization. A prototype of such planning system has been developed to equip the set-up personnel with aids, which make a structured and disturbance free set-up process possible.