NEXT WEEK!
Friday, July 10
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
Time
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
$75 per Group
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Work That Makes Sense Module 3:
Your Implementation Tool Box
Only $100 for a full year of access!
Learn about the five tools specifically designed to help you and your company succeed visually:
1. Your Vision Place,
2. Your Action Hit List,
3. Your Supply Cart,
4. Your Visual Workplace Blitz; and
5. Your local-area Laminated Map.
Each tool is described in detail--with plenty of hands-on exercises so you can put these tools into practice right away and keep a tight focus as your work area improves visually.
Normally $500 for a year, your Visual Thinker Newsletter Deal is
$100 through July 31
Make the deal even better! Get the July special, then send us an email telling us how you are using the tools, and
we'll give you a
25% discount off the full WTMS eLearning System!
[email protected]
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| Night vision goggles are green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color. |
The purpose of "5S+1" is to prepare the physical environment to hold visual information and then to install visual location information--the visual where--for everything that casts a shadow: border, home address, and ID label. This simple formula creates an exceptional outcome called automatic recoil: the ability of every workplace item to find its way back to its designated home.
[For more info on this topic, register for the Live Webinar "5S on Steroids" on July 10--See "Upcoming Events" above!]
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Let's celebrate this Independence Day by thinking about Freedom-- freedom from the enemy,
Motion.
Motion is moving without working--all the things you must do in order to do your work, but it's not the work.
Make a pledge today to create and use a visual device to eliminate one of these forms of motion:
Searching
Wandering
Guessing
Checking (and re-checking)
Handling
Moving
Counting
ASKING
ANSWERING
INTERRUPTING
WAITING
Get your visual device in place and then CELEBRATE YOUR INDEPENDENCE!
Cindy Lyndin
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Visual Radio:
A Primer: The Kaizen Blitz & How to Use It to Get Visual
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
A Primer: The Kaizen Blitz & How to Use It to Get Visual
Where did the Kaizen Blitz originate? If you say Mother Toyota, you are only partly right. Tune in to Visual Workplace Radio this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth travels into history and tells you the real story behind when and how the so-called "blitz" (not its real name) arrived on our shores and what happened when it did. Dr. Galsworth fills you in on the real meaning of the term kaizen blitz--and why you may find Japanese-speaking practitioners snicker when they hear us use it. The stage is then set for her to map out how to use the blitz format to build associate-led visuality within and across departments--whether your workplace is an office or a factory floor. Learn how to set up a visual blitz, how to conduct it, and how to enlist supervisors in playing an active part. You may be surprised how much you can accomplish in a day (or even three hours)--and why longer blitzes that focus on visuality may not be advisable. Tune in/learn more.
Listen Live
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Office Visual Blitz (Sears Home Services, Sacramento, CA)
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Shop Floor Visual Blitz (Wilson Transformer, Australia)
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Shop Floor Visual Blitz (Denison Hydraulics, Marysville, OH)
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5S on Steroids/Beyond Japanese 5S/Beyond Compliance
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
Our Lean Alone Is Not Enough series began two months ago, when I began to un-nest the impact of Womack's and Jones's book, Lean Thinking, on the operational improvement model. You heard me say there are problems in the success formula the two authors advanced, but I am focused in addressing only the one that targets 5S as the indisputable start point. The truth is: I do not dispute that getting rid of the clutter, cleaning what remains, and putting all that in order is the right first step. No argument.
The problem lies with how, in adopting 5S, the form both kept and lost its purpose-and therefore its usefulness-the more and more popular it became. Simply stated, 5S has become like lean, bloated-the be all and end all of workplace organization and, as symptomatically, of employee empowerment. In other words, it has been Americanized.
Japanese 5S has no such ambitions. There are reasons for that. First,
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For your Independence Day Picnic
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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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