<div align="left"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;">In most of the cases, you will get this answer : "</span><span style="font-size:8pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">Reduce</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">time</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">to</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">change the</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">tools</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">to</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">improve</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">production capacity</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;">".<br /><br /></span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">While in</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">some</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">cases</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">this response</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">may</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">be</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">correct,</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">SMED</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">is primarily</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">a</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">tool</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">to</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">decrease</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">size</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">of production batches</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;">.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;"><br />Smaller and smaller lots allow in the same period of time to manufacture all the references necessary for the different Clients of the Company and in the same time reduce the product stocks and therefore the lead time (Lead Time).<br /><br /></span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">Let us simply recall</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">that the</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">stock</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">is</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">not</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">a</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">necessary evil</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">but</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">an</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">absolute evil</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;">. </span><span style="font-size:8pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">It hides</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">underperformance</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">or</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">weakness</span>es <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">of</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">the process (</span><span title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">non</span><span title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">-quality</span><span title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">unreliabillity</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">and</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">mostly</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">non</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">flexibility</span><span title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;">. </span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:8pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">Taking</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">this</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">absolute evil</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">as</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">an opportunity</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">for improvement</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">in</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">gradual introduction</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">of</span> the <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">Just</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">Needed</span><span title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">inventory reduction</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">becomes a</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">real engine</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">of</span> <span class="hps" title="Faceti click pentru traducerea alternativa">progress</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana, geneva;">Implementing the SMED in a sustainable manner is a prerequisite for the Just Needed (Lean Manufacturing).</span></p>
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