SET UP REDUCTION (SUR) GROUP

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, UK

Dr A R Mileham, S J Culley & Dr G W Owen

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SUMMARY

The SUR group was established in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath in 1991. Since then the work has been involved in a broad spectrum of industry looking at a range of issues connected with reducing the changeover times between batches and increasing the quality of the changeovers.

Brief details of what SUR is and what it can do for your business can be found here

Full details of the achievements of the group and its future plans will appear here in due course. In the mean time the following publications, which have been produced by the group should be of interest.

• Gest, Culley, McIntosh & Mileham, "Classifying and Selecting Set-up Reduction Techniques", Proc. 9th Nat. Conf. Prod. Research
• McIntosh, Culley, Gest & Mileham, "An Overall Methodology for Set-up Reduction (SUR) within Existing Manufacturing Systems", Proc. 9th Nat. Conf. Prod. Research
• Gest, Culley, McIntosh & Mileham, "An Implementation Level Approach for the Identification of Set-up Reduction Techniques", Proc. 10th Nat. Conf. Prod. Research
• "The Financial Benefits of an SUR Initiative - A Briefing Document for Senior and Middle Managers". Bath University Report No. 041/1994
• Department of Trade and Industry Seminars at Bath University 1994 a) Set-up Reduction - What it can do for your Business (Bath University Report No. 039/1994) b) Implementing SUR and fast tool change - a practical approach (Bath University Report No. 040/1994)
• Gest Culley Mileham & Owen 'Classification methodologies for set-up reduction techniques within industry', 4th Int. Factory 2000 Conf, IEE Conf Publication No 388, pp 486-490, Oct 1994 University of York
• Gest Culley McIntosh Mileham & Owen 'Review of Fast Tool change systems', International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol 8 No 3 1995 pp 205-210 ISSN 0951-5240
• Culley Mileham McIntosh Owen & Gest 'Design for Changeover - products machines tooling and systems', Poc 3rd Int Conf on Sheet Metal, University of Central England June 1995
• McIntosh Culley Milham Owen & Gest, 'The role of rapid changeovers on adapting manufacturing systems for lean manufacture', Proc 5th Int EAEC (European Automobile Engineers Co-operation) Congress - Lean Product Developemnt and manufacture, Strasbourg (France), pp SIA 9506D10, June 1995, EAEC?SIA
• Mileham Culley Owen & McIntosh 'Design for changeover - A pre-requisite for lean manufacture', Proc 28th International Symposium of the Automotive Technology and Automation (ISATA) on Lean/Agile Manufacturing in the Automotive Industries Ltd, ISBN 0-947719-76-8
• Owen McIntosh Mileham Culley & Gest, 'Manufacturing Flexibility - A case for excess capacity', Advances in Manufactuing technology IX - Proc 11th National Conference on Manufacturing Research, DeMonford Universtiy, pp 366-400 Sept 1995 Taylor and Francis, ISBN 0-7487-04007
• McIntosh, Culley, Gest, Mileham and Owen, 'An assessment of the role of design in the improvement of changeover performance', International Journal of Operations and Production Managemenet Vol 16 No 9 1996 pp5-22

Produced by Dr G W Owen, G.W.Owen@Bath.ac.uk