The Visual Factory
eBook - ePub

The Visual Factory

Building Participation Through Shared Information

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Visual Factory

Building Participation Through Shared Information

About this book

If you're aware of the tremendous improvements achieved in productivity and quality as a result of employee involvement, then you'll appreciate the great value of creating a visual factory. This book explains why conventional work areas, where fragmented information flows from ""top to bottom,"" must be replaced by the ""visual workplace,"" where information flows in every direction. It details how visual management can make the factory a place where workers and supervisors freely communicate so that every employee can take improvement action.

The author's year-long worldwide research resulted in an abundance of practical recommendations. The communication techniques he suggests will:

  • Foster cohesion within groups of employees.
  • Turn fault-based into fact based communication.
  • Overcome such problems as absenteeism and high defect rates.
  • Stimulate an unending flow of suggestions from employees.

A valuable resource for plant, operations, and human relations managers, this text discusses how successful companies develop meeting and communication areas, communicate work standard production controls such as kanban, and make goals and progress visible. Over 200 diagrams and photos illustrate the numerous visual techniques discussed.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780915299676
eBook ISBN
9781351408820

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Foreword
  8. Publisher’s Message
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Visual Communication
  11. 2 A Team’s Territory
  12. 3 Visual Documentation
  13. 4 Visual Production Control
  14. 5 Visual Quality Control
  15. 6 Process Indicators
  16. 7 Making Progress Visible
  17. 8 Implementing Visual Communication
  18. About the Author
  19. Index