The paper presents a study of set-up time reduction in a small factory involved in the machining of precision components in small batches with large variety for the automobile industry. The factory has made some set-up reductions mainly using work study related methods and in one manufacturing cell by the use of the Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) methodology. Until recently the set-up times were not measured and worse still were considered as productive hours. As a consequence, there was a lack of awareness and motivation amongst operational personnel to reduce set-up times and knowledge of SMED was limited to a small group of individuals. This, along with the lack of investment in mechanisms to aid set-up time reductions and prevent errors, has restricted the use of this type of methods and technology. However, there is evidence that the demands made by the factory’s major customer will lead to increased efforts to put into place these types of changes.

The main objective of this paper is to find out the various applications of Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) in Indian industries. SMED is a theory and set of techniques that make it possible to perform equipment setup and changeover operations within 10 minutes. SMED was developed by Dr. Shigeo Shingo in Japan. Several researchers, explained various applications of SMED likes in press machine shop, automobile industry, PVC manufacturing industry, crankshaft manufacturing industry, stamping industry, welding industry, Small Scale Industry, CNC manufacturing industry, injection molding machine in packaging industry, punching machine in gear manufacturing industry, steel industry, machine tool industry, diesel engine manufacturing industry, shaping machine in gear manufacturing industry, garment industry, bearing manufacturing industry, forging industry, CNC shaping industry, radiator, compressor and HVAC manufacturing industry, Diesel injection systems. The search process was focused on research papers, from various journals through a different electronic database. The total of 49 research papers is reviewed from various journals. In this paper, an attempt has been made to state, the various applications of SMED in Indian industries. After the findings various applications of SMED it is concluded that SMED is a versatile technique which is suitable for any industry to reduce setup time and change over time.

The main objective of this paper is to find out the boiler efficiency calculation and method to improvement. The thermal industry is known as a major source of conventional energy in India. In the thermal power plant where chemical energy of the coal is converted into electricity. It is most demanding industry now days because of high energy demand. Boiler is the most important part for plant. Running the plant with maximum result we need high boiler efficiency. Calculating boiler efficiency as one of the most important types of performance measurement in any power plant. For calculation of Boiler efficiency basically we use Direct and Indirect method. It is a measure of how effectively chemical energy in fuel is converted into heat energy in steam going to the turbine. Finding boiler efficiency from this method from this method use for boiler efficiency, the data is collected from different department in plant like, Boiler Efficiency Department. Many researchers are find out the boiler efficiency of different plant and carried out their research for improvement of boiler efficiency. This review paper helpful to calculate the boiler efficiency and find out the different types of losses occurs in boiler. We also find that boiler efficiency is always somehow increase by implementing this method and useful for further research.