Statement of substantive character of the course paper
I, Novikov Artyom, 4th year student of Graduate School of Management SPBU (faculty “International Management”), am confirming that my individual bachelor thesis on the topic of consulting project “Increasing the Efficiency of "Gotek Northwest"'s Production Flow Using the SMED Tool”, presented for public defense in June 2023 does not contain elements of plagiarism. All direct borrowings from printed and electronic sources, as well as from previously defended coursework and final qualifying works, candidate's and doctoral theses have corresponding links.  Novikov Artyom 30/05/2023                   Table of contents  TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Statement of substantive character of the course paper PAGEREF _Toc136358204 \h 1 Introduction PAGEREF _Toc136358205 \h 4 Paper relevance and managerial value PAGEREF _Toc136358206 \h 4 Paper goal and objectives: PAGEREF _Toc136358207 \h 6 Managerial problem PAGEREF _Toc136358208 \h 6 Methodology PAGEREF _Toc136358209 \h 8 Layer 1 – Research philosophy PAGEREF _Toc136358210 \h 8 Layer 2 - Approach PAGEREF _Toc136358211 \h 9 Layer 3 – Methodological choice PAGEREF _Toc136358212 \h 9 Layer 4 – Research strategy PAGEREF _Toc136358213 \h 9 Layer 5 – Time horizon PAGEREF _Toc136358214 \h 10 Company description PAGEREF _Toc136358215 \h 11 History of Lean. Basic principles PAGEREF _Toc136358216 \h 13 SMED method PAGEREF _Toc136358217 \h 17 Benchmarking analysis PAGEREF _Toc136358218 \h 19 Empirical research results PAGEREF _Toc136358219 \h 22 Description of “Gotek Northwest” case PAGEREF _Toc136358220 \h 22 Current state analysis PAGEREF _Toc136358221 \h 24 The 1st step of SMED method. Examination of the current situation. PAGEREF _Toc136358222 \h 27 The 2nd step of SMED method. Separation of internal and external operations. PAGEREF _Toc136358223 \h 31 The 3rd step of SMED method. Conversion of internal work to external work. PAGEREF _Toc136358224 \h 31 The 4th step of the SMED method. Reduction of internal works. PAGEREF _Toc136358225 \h 33 The 5th step of the SMED method. Reduction of external works. PAGEREF _Toc136358226 \h 40 Assessment of the impact of the proposed recommendations on the OEE indicator PAGEREF _Toc136358227 \h 41 Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc136358228 \h 46 List of references PAGEREF _Toc136358229 \h 48 
Novikov Artyom, 4th year student of Graduate School of Management SPBU (faculty “International Management”), am confirming that my individual bachelor thesis on the topic of consulting Project “Increasing the Efficiency of "Gotek Northwest"'s Production Flow Using the SMED Tool”, presented for public defense in Juni...