Lean is capable of improving the operational profile of nearly every company—and fast! But we ask: When lean turn arounds are so rapid, can the culture be transformed as well? While it’s possible, for most companies it is unlikely.
How do we know we’ve lubricated the machine enough? How can visual devices help us be sure? Can visuality also help us avoid the wrong lubrication? In all cases, the answer is a loud and definite YES.
Did you know: 70% to 80% of all machine failures are due to lubrication problems? Chief among the many reasons is: People don’t realize lubrication is the cause or there is something they can do about it.
Why bother to apply visual thinking to a machine if you’ve already decided which devices you will put on it? Just stick them in place and do the minimum. It’ll help—a little.
Do you have unplanned machine downtime? Are quality problems related to machine and operator performance plaguing your planning? Are quick changeovers not quick at all? The Visual Machine® solves these challenges and more.
Do you mistakenly believe the visual workplace is merely a series of point solutions—helpful, even clever—but not much more? If so, your expectations of visuality are too small for the quantity of information deficits in your company.
Who would dare ask this question: How much waste reduction is enough? ‘Sounds like heresy, doesn’t it? But to the executive leader it could start sounding pretty darn smart.
How do you decide where to apply resources in order to improve? And how do you know you made the right choice? So many improvement opportunities/so little time.
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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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