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Follow-Up Webinar for NIACC April Visual Thinking Seminar Attendees
Tuesday, July 19
Call for Info 503-233-1784
Shingo Manufacturing Summit
Mini Visual Thinking Seminar Knoxville, TN
September 20
Visual Thinking Seminar and Site Assessment
Querétaro, Mexico
October 19-20 & 25-26
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What would your workday be like if the floors, instead of just holding you up, actually helped you do your work, actively and precisely? What would it be like if the walls assisted you in that--as well as the tools, tables, shelves, carts, materials, machines and other objects in your work area? What if they too became active partners in helping you reach your daily work outcomes--safety, quality, cost, delivery--day after day, week after week, year after year?
from
Work That Makes Sense
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to
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Visual Radio:
5S and Charley's Table (Part 6/Hero Within)
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
Is there a tried-and-true profile of a hero? A time-tested, widely-accepted persona that the rest of us can model ourselves after? Or is it possible, for example, for the hero of a tale to also be a grade-A grump? Join us this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth shares her first-hand account of the shop floor story that taught her the answer and a lot of other valuable lessons. The grump in this instance was a machine operator named Charley and--harking back to last week's show on the value field--a gripping struggle over a table that everyone (except Charley) wanted to toss into the trash. Even though everyone in his union-based plant was trying hard to learn what R-E-S-P-E-C-T meant in everyday work, Charley's case was so extreme that his co-workers decided to take certain liberties with that definition--and they lived to regret it. In this sixth show in her hero within series, Gwendolyn provides the telling details. Tune in/Learn more. Let the workplace speak!
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This is the standing sign that pleased the Colonel so much he awarded the company the contract.
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Drilling Deeper into Your Value Field (Part 6)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
Your understanding of the term value field (which I defined and discussed in last week's issue) is a mighty lever in your pursuit of motion and therefore your detection of information deficits at work--the invisible enemy. Your value field is where work happens, where you add value. That means when you are not in your value field, you cannot be working--and you are therefore in motion; you are moving and not adding value. Remember the two types of value fields? Type 1 is your primary value field: where work happens. Type 2 refers to your secondary fields: functions that support the work but is not the work.
Discovering the difference between the two can be a quite an adventure--and exactly what happened at Skyworks Solutions, a semi-conductor plant in the Boston area. I was training a dozen Bonding Cell associates in visual order (aka, visual where).
The early step of the process was for operators to notice and track their motion. In part, that meant people had to locate their value field--where each person added value. When asked where that was, to a person, they said: "My value field is my department." "Very good," said I. "And so what does that make your motion?" They caught on immediately. "Motion," they chorused, "is whenever we leave our department." Perfect. I passed out the memo pads.
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Paulette's secondary value field, with all the items that supported her primary work in excellent visual order
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Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh? Send the image to
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