Friday, July 10
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
5S on Steroids
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
$75 per person or group
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Podcast Bundle #3:
Smart Placement: Principles & Practices
9 Podcasts that will change your workplace for better & forever!
3.1
Smart Placement & Why You Need It
3.2
Smart Placement: The Mapping Process
3.3
Smart Placement: People & Mapping
3.4
Smart Placement: Principles 1 thru 4
3.5
Smart Placement : Principles 5-6-7
3.6
Let the Flow Do the Work: Smart Placement Principle 8
3.7
Sort Universe/Design-To-Task/Double Up (Principles 9-10-11)
3.8
Store Things/Not Air + Double Function + Follow Flow (Principles 12-13-14)
3.9
Smart Placement: Final Steps + Poka Yoke Insights
Through June 30, you can buy this $25 bundle
for only $10 USD
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| Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual cues from another's eyes. And dogs only do it with humans. |
| Visual is about information and people, targeting waste on a local or micro level. The technologies of the visual workplace translate information deficits into visual devices and systems that populate the work environment, enabling people to execute the standards formulated by lean into performance that is both precise and complete. Effectively and comprehensively implemented, workplace visuality does something more than simply enable lean outcomes. It makes them sustainable. |
From the Editor:
Are We There Yet?
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In your visual journey, do you sometimes feel like the kid in the back seat, wishing that the ride wasn't so long? That you could be at your destination
now?
Remember that every step in the journey is a chance to learn something new. And even if the device itself is eventually discarded, the lesson remains. Those lessons are applied in ways you may not even realize, because they become deeply ingrained in your thinking process.
You don't want the people in charge to turn the car around because they are tired of your whining, so BREATHE, and trust the process!
Cindy Lyndin
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Visual Radio: Transformation in a
High-Volume/Low-Complexity Setting
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
Transformation in a High Volume/Low-Complexity Setting
What is the challenge in transforming operations in a low-volume/high-complexity work environment? Why is progress so hard to come by? Where does lean fit in? And what is visuality's role?
This week on Visual Workplace Radio, Gwendolyn Galsworth extends last week's discussion on implementing improvement in slo-mo settings. This week she describes how to do it--her HOW. With military depots as a focal point, Dr. Galsworth describes how she calibrates the bottom-line potential of change--by first comparing visual's likely impact with lean's. Then, she shares how she determines what to do first and what comes next, usually in close parallel. To help her, she has designed a "3-Column Assessment Protocol," specifically developed for the low-volume/ high-mix setting. The effectiveness of this protocol in accurately assessing change potential is tied precisely to the fact that it deals with visual, lean, and culture separately. Tune in/learn more.
Listen Live
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Where Visuality is the Only Choice
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
What is the big difference between visual and lean? Answering that question will bring us closer to understanding our premise for the short series I began in Issue 23 of The Visual Thinker (May 27), with the article: Lean Alone Is Not Enough. But first we must raise the question under the one I just asked: Why is an answer important?
The core difference between visual and lean is the medium each targets. Visual pursues imbedded information and, therefore, adherence. Effectively implemented, the result of visual is stability-and stability creates reliability and repeatability (with a straight arrow pathway to sustainability). I rush to add that visuality produces stability even in low-volume/high-complexity production--in fact, especially there. Lean targets pull along the critical path. Lean, therefore, targets time-and its corollary, speed. The combination of the visual and lean-imbedded information and imbedded time-provides the enterprise with a powerful platform for growth. Because visual and lean are both waste reduction strategies, in combination they become a powerhouse for any company's pursuit of operational excellence: the visual-lean? alliance.
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Time doesn't just disappear in high-complexity environments. It becomes the enemy.
Lean therefore is not an option. Visuality is!
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| And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To... |
Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh? Send the image to
[email protected],
and we'll put it here and credit you with the funny find!
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Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to
[email protected]
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Check out Dr. Galsworth's
Sears Case Study video,
just posted on our website.
It's FREE and SHORT
and full of good info and fun ideas!
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