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Glenwood, MN
April 4-6
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Sheffield, IA
April 6-7
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Apple Valley, MN
April 12-13
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Visual Thinking Seminar and Site Assessment
Albuquerque, NM
April 26-27
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Lean Management Journal European Conference
Panel Participant & Keynote Speaker
London, UK
May 11-12
Visual Thinking Seminar and Site Assessment
Galway, Ireland
May 17-18
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Online Training System for Engineers
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Your Operations System Improvement Template is the framework is what makes work possible. It is the framework within which you add value--and without which you are at the mercy of whatever happens that is not work. Sadly, the vast majority of companies in the world have not yet even defined what work means--let alone define and deployed an operations system.
from
Becoming a Leader of Improvement - Visual Leadership Seminar Manual
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Visual Radio:
Rehabilitate You 5S Audit: Six Remedies (ENCORE)
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
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This Week's Episode
Rehabilitate Your 5S Audit: Six Remedies (ENCORE)
What's hard about a 5S audit? Not much--except most companies can't get them started. Or if started, can't make them stick. And did we mention the push back and/or the indifference? But it doesn't have to be that way. Join us this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth shares six simple--but powerful--ways to tweak your approach to the 5S audit and change--well, everything. For example, have you ever considered what would happen if you let your associates own the audit format and change the items that they get audited on? Have you ever considered letting your operators audit themselves? And maybe other departments as well? Have you ever thought about actually changing audit items--so they would trigger a response that was something beyond a simple YES/NO? And how about that scoring scale? Does it work? Could it work? It's time to rehabilitate your 5S audit--to create success for the company and develop people as well.
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Doorway 2: Visual Standards
(Not As Powerful As You Hope)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
Everyone in the enterprise makes a contribution to visuality in the workplace. Everyone must. The war against information deficits is impossible to win without participation from all organizational levels. This is exactly the message of my central organizing framework, The Ten Doorways. This week we put Visual Standards under the microscope, the category of visual function for Doorway 2.
Doorway 2 recognizes managers, engineers, and supervisors as responsible for publishing timely, accurate and complete technical and procedural standards-and then making them visual. In a visual workplace, they take the lead in this and are rightly held accountable if visual standards are not actively a part of the adherence framework in operations. This does not mean that others are barred from the process-area associates, for example, are frequent contributors to visual standards.
Engineers, managers, and supervisors, however, are principally accountable for the precise description of work content...
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Visual Detail.
This Visual Standard targets one element in a longer SOP, reminding us of what good and bad looks like. Very helpful. (Delphi Automotive, Mexico)
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