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Visual Thinking Seminar and Site Assessment
Querétaro, Mexico
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A visual mini-system is a cluster of visual devices that work together to promote a single performance outcome.
A mini-system can be as simple as a visually-defined tool cabinet, or a single shelf in it. It can be a drawer or the entire desk. It can be one side of the machine that you have visually organized around small tools, lubricants, and fixtures, or it can be the entire machining system.
A mini-system has a tight focus; its visual components share a purpose. They are located together and made visual for a reason: to create a specific outcome.
from
Work That Makes Sense
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Visual Radio:
Next Generation: 5S on Steroids (ENCORE)
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
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This Week's Episode
Next Generation: 5S on Steroids (ENCORE)
What if 5S-from-Japan made a cozy--and permanent-home for itself in the West as a core and very successful part of continuous improvement? What if 5S triggered high, even dazzling, levels of employee engagement? What if 5S was a system that pulled high-impact operational outcomes into a place that fed the bottom line? Great questions to which Gwendolyn Galsworth says: Why not? Tune in this week as she introduces four new elements into 5S that change--everything! These four create a powerful synergy that can transform your 5S into 5S on Steroids: 1) information deficits as the enemy; 2) motion as the measure; 3) visual devices as the solution; and 4) I-driven as the engine. Traditional 5S contains no authentic call to action--and for good reason: It is first and foremost a compliance-based (not process-based) approach. So we tick off if we did/did not do what we were supposed to do, audit style. Let's change that! Let the workplace speak.
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Visual Scheduling: A Problem-Solving Mechanism
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
Visual Scheduling is a plain two-dimensional format that maps out which products, parts or subassemblies need to be produced, when, in what quantity, and in what order. Nothing could be simpler. And in companies that do not yet have the habit of publishing the schedule in a single, centralized location for all to see and know, the impact of a visual schedule can be revolutionary. That core information is no longer one of the company's best-kept secrets, known by only the chosen few--the planner and a handful of supervisors. Operators no longer have to ask--and ask again: "What am I supposed to make now, boss?" They know what that boss knows-the production schedule. In fact, put in a visual/physical format, anyone and everyone can access that schedule at will because it is both visual and physical. The schedu
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