The Visual Workplace: Work That Makes Sense
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Special Encore Presentation: Building Blocks of Visual...
What is Visual Thinking? Our ability to recognize motion (the enemy) and the info deficits that cause it—and then to eliminate both through solutions that are visual. A main outcome of a visual conversion is the emergence of a companywide competency: people who know how to think visually. Visual thinkers see workplace problems in a new way, solving them through the principles called The Building Blocks of Visual Thinking. Listen as host Gwendolyn Galsworth, visual expert/award-winning...
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Norman Bodek: Dr. Improvement
Answer this: How did knowledge first reach us about JIT, one-piece flow, employee empowerment, suggestion systems, SMED, X-Type Matrix, Total Productive Maintenance, and cellular design? If you say from Japan or even Toyota, you are only partly right. The truth is these world-changing methods arrived on our shores thanks, in great part, to the tireless efforts of Norman Bodek. Rightly dubbed “Dr. Improvement,” Norman nearly single-handedly brought the knowledge wealth of the then “Japanese...
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The Visual Workplace: Work That Makes Sense
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The Visual Where: Addresses (part 1)
An address is not just a label with a name on it! The logic of addresses goes far beyond simple naming. Yet, in far too many companies, addresses are overlooked or merely given lip service. Like a road map without any city or street names, without excellent addresses we have little chance of finding the vital workplace items stored on racks, shelves, on the walls and, yes, on the floor. Worse than that, without effective addresses, shortages, mix ups and even accidents are bound to...
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Developing Your Color-Code Border System
You know what we know: borders are an indispensable and a powerful element in your language of operational visuality. Whether you are in discrete manufacturing, continuous process flow, high or low volume production, in a hospital or in a laboratory, borders can visually capture the where, what, who, when, how many, and how of performance. Add an address for that message to become robust. Today, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, walks you through the step-by-step process she...
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Border Order/Border Color/Border Sense
Our exploration—and exultation—of the power of borders continues. Completing the agenda from last week’s show, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, provides three stunning examples of the double-border function—highly useful applications you can bring to your own company and your own area. She then moves on to color-coded borders and the secret of their success (as well as the most common mistakes). As time permits, Galsworth will detail two other border-strengthening processes....
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Smart Borders: Dimensions of Meaning
The problem with using the term “line” interchangeably with “border” is that a line is a geometric coordinate. It does not have a performance function. But a border not only tangibly contributes to the nature and performance of work, it also functions dynamically as an operational partner in how, when, and where work gets done. The more we understand this, the more we recognize how borders can help us create work that makes sense. On this week’s show, Gwendolyn Galsworth (your host, author,...
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Special Encore Presentation: Confessions of a Visual...
How do you assess a workplace for visuality? How do you determine the current level of a site’s visual competency? What are the considerations? What do you look for—and how do you know decide what it means? This week, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, returns to her favorite topic—The Visual Workplace—and shares her secrets and insights about conducting a visual site assessment (the first of two to three shows on this subject). Hear how she sets up her walk about and how she...
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The Logic of Borders: The Power & 12 Reasons
Until a company understands the logic and power of borders, borders are merely treated as so many lines—useful for neatness and order but not much more. Few people will expect performance to improve because of them, let alone positively impact KPIs. What a surprise to discover that borders (especially when combined with robust addresses) can measurably increase productivity on the departmental level, even while helping build a work culture of continuous improvement if there is none. And if...
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Borders: Work Horses of Operator-led Visuality
Borders are the work horses of operator-led visuality—and rarely utilized to their full potential. Over the past several weeks, your host, author, and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, has walked us through the Smart Placement formula (Function + Location = Flow) so we can position workplace items in locations that connect and align their functions. Now nail that relationship in place through borders, addresses, and (if possible) ID labels—a trio of device categories that imbeds the visual...
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Smart Placement/Final Steps + Poka Yoke Insights
Visuality based in principles means you can continue to expand workplace transparency far beyond the first cycle. Over the past two months, your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, has explained and described a set of 14 Smart Placement Principles and how to imbed them into the living landscape of work. The result? The flow of work content based on the actual function of the things that populate the work environment. In today’s show, this discussion is completed and next...
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Store Things Not Air + Double Function + Follow Natural...
The final three of the fourteen principles of Smart Placement focus on opportunities hidden in thin air. What, for example, is meant by “negative space?” And how do you turn it into a positive factor that helps the enterprise succeed? This is just one of the many imbedded questions this set of principles reveal. In this final Smart Placement show, Gwendolyn Galsworth (your host and visual workplace expert) discusses this and other important content that can help you utilize Smart Placement,...
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Sort the Universe/Design to Task/Double Up (Principles...
Piles of things is a known trigger for massive motion. As we continue our journey through the fourteen principles of smart placement, we learn not only how to order those piles but how to organize them to support our performance outcomes. This week, your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, walks you through Principle 9: ways to sort not only components and supplies into a coherent pattern but, if need be, the entire layout of your area. Or in the case of Scania Trucks, the...
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