| | |  | Training Within Industry (TWI) | Home » » » Visual Systems: Harnessing the Power of a Visual Workplace | | | | | | | Description: | | How to improve quality and productivity through non-verbal signs, signals, controls, and constraints. When an industrial workplace (such as a machining area, assembly line, or loading dock) is dirty, cluttered or poorly marked, it's not just bad to the eyes -- it's bad for the business. This book is a comprehensive guide to ""visual systems"" -- a highly successful approach that uses visual indicators, signs, controls, and guarantees to direct and support activities on the shop floor. The goal is a self-explaining, self-regulating workplace where critical information is shared rapidly, accurately -- and without speaking or reading a word. Packed with case examples, photos, tables, and checklists, the book shows how visual systems can reduce costs by: * radically improving both quality and safety * triggering new levels of employee participation * cutting wasted motion and needless use of space and materials * creating a company-wide visual improvement ""language""" | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780814474594
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Gwendolyn D. Galsworth | | Paperback:
| 352 pages | | Publisher:
| AMACOM | | Publication Date:
| January 14, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0814474594 | | Product Length:
| 11.69 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.27 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.74 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.88 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Good tips on deployment, and good examplesJun 15, 2010
By Jeffrey I. Lecompte
"Six Sigma MBB"
As a long time lean professional I use this book to give new students useful ideas for visual management. With lots of deployment advice, examples and case studies, it could be used as the primary source for a viusal management or 5S deployment.
Outstanding features:
1. Lots of picutes of actual improvements
2. Good use of case studies and examples
3. Sound eeployment and management advice
4. Practical guides, checklists and forms
Minor quibble: all graphics are in black and white. I understand that black and white greatly reduces printing costs, but a book on visual management really cries out for at least a few color plates.
I strongly reccomend this book as both an entertaining read and a useful source of tips, tactics and deployment advice.
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