Visual Systems: Harnessing the Power of a Visual Workplace - Softcover

Galsworth, Gwendolyn D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814474594 ISBN 13: 9780814474594

Publisher: Amacom Books, 2007

Synopsis

How to improve quality and productivity through non-verbal signs, signals, controls, and constraints. When an industrial workplace (such as a machining area, assembly line, or loading dock) is dirty, cluttered or poorly marked, it's not just bad to the eyes -- it's bad for the business. This book is a comprehensive guide to ""visual systems"" -- a highly successful approach that uses visual indicators, signs, controls, and guarantees to direct and support activities on the shop floor. The goal is a self-explaining, self-regulating workplace where critical information is shared rapidly, accurately -- and without speaking or reading a word. Packed with case examples, photos, tables, and checklists, the book shows how visual systems can reduce costs by: * radically improving both quality and safety * triggering new levels of employee participation * cutting wasted motion and needless use of space and materials * creating a company-wide visual improvement ""language"""

About this title

About the Author

GWENDOLYN D. GALSWORTH (Cambridge, MA) is president and founder of a consulting and training firm that specializes in tools that support JIT improvement and lean production. She is a two-term Baldrige examiner.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814474594
• ISBN 13: 9780814474594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320