What’s wrong with employee engagement? What’s wrong with getting people involved? Nothing—as long as you make supervisors an active part of that. Don’t be a company that supports operator creativity but forgets that supervisors are contributors too.
When 5S came to the West in the early 1980s, we were inspired and eager to get on board. In a blinding flash of the obvious, we asked how we could have worked for so many decades in such cluttered, dirty work places—and achieved any level of success.
Is lean alone enough? Many companies attempt to convert from traditional to the new manufacturing by relying exclusively on lean tools. Hospitals and offices too.
Who doesn’t recognize the tremendous power of the visual workplace in operations—color coding, visual standards, kanban, borders, addresses, production boards, poka-yoke systems? These devices are effective because they are visual.
Our sustainment series wraps up today—at least for the time being. And what three things do we now know for sure? 1) A company that does not learn how to sustain its improvements will lose them.
Operators who implement the Visual Where (5S) to their level of need often believe that the company is 90% through its journey to a fully-functioning visual workplace.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
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