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SMED must be internalized for best results.
Many companies identify SMED as an important initiative to reduce setup time, thereby improving flexibility on the shop floor and increasing productivity simultaneously. However, they sometimes struggle to find who should lead the pilot implementation in factory.
SMED does involve some technical inputs, however its success depends largely on the behavioral aspects embedded in work processes. There is an easy way to find out who has the right mindset ready for SMED.
If your factory or office has a card swiping machine for attendance recording, just observe the behavior of employees when they come to swipe the card. A few would have the card in their hands ready for swiping, while many others would struggle to locate it in their wallets or bags.
The ones who have the card in their hands are the right people with ready mindset to implement SMED. Others need to internalize it first before implementing it.