Visual Controls

Visual Controls

Author: Chris A. Ortiz

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1466503262

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An effective visual communication system can help manufacturing employees eliminate significant waste from daily tasks. From work-zone color coding to posted metrics, visual controls clarify and simplify the path to enhanced processes and profits. Leaving little to chance, Visual Controls: Applying Visual Management to the Factory provides a detail


Seeing is Believing

Seeing is Believing

Author: Stewart Liff

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780814413173

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Visual Systems

Visual Systems

Author: Gwendolyn D. Galsworth

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780814403204

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These are the proven benefits of implementing "visual systems" - a highly successful lean-production approach that uses visual indicators, signals, controls, and guarantees to direct and support activities on the shop floor. The result is a self-explaining and self-regulating workplace where critical information is shared rapidly, accurately, and without speaking a word. Visual Systems is a comprehensive look at how to implement this breakthrough approach. Any company can use Dr. Gwendolyn D. Galsworth's approach to organize, share, and visually manage the thousands of location details on which the daily life of an enterprise depends. Use this book to build common sense and a common improvement language directly into the workplace and put an end to costly secrets, surprises, and microsupervision.


Kamishibai Boards

Kamishibai Boards

Author: Joseph Niederstadt

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-04-16

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1482205300

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Part of the Toyota Production System, Kamishibai boards are simple and flexible visual controls for performing audits within a manufacturing process. When used properly, they are powerful tools for performing, managing, and auditing tasks of specific duties. Kamishibai Boards: A Lean Visual Management System That Supports Layered Audits explains how to use this visual management system to identify normal conditions versus abnormal conditions in your organization. Filled with easy-to-follow instructions that require minimal training, it outlines a layered audit system for sustaining continuous improvement that can be applied to any organization in any industry. The book includes downloadable resources with master forms you can use to create your own daily, weekly, or monthly Kamishibai cards for any subject. The downloadable resources also include electronic copies of all examples in the book. Helping you focus on resolving abnormal situations, the book supplies the understanding required to make problems, abnormalities, and variations from the standard visible so corrective actions can be made right away—so you can spend more of your valuable time on achieving sustainable improvement.


Visual Leaders

Visual Leaders

Author: David Sibbet

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1118494229

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What Visual Meetings did for meetings and Visual Teams did for teams, this book does for leaders Visual Leaders explores how leaders can support visioning and strategy formation, planning and management, and organizationchange through the application of visual meeting and visual team methodologies organization wide—literally "trans-forming" communications and people's sense of what is possible. It describes seven essential tools for visual leaders—mental models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision theaters, roadmaps, Storymaps, and virtual visuals—and examples of methods for implementation throughout an organization. Written for all levels of leadership in organizations, from department heads through directors, heads of strategic business units, and "C" level executives Explores how communications has become interactive and graphic and how these tools can be used to shape direction and align people for implementation Brings tools, methods and frameworks to life with stories of real organizations modeling these practices Visual Leaders answers the question of how design thinking and visual literacy can help to orient leaders to the complexity of contemporary organizations in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.


The Warehouse Management Handbook

The Warehouse Management Handbook

Author: Jerry D. Smith

Publisher: Tompkins Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1014

ISBN-13: 9780965865913

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In addition, the book explains how to solve a wide range of typical problems, exploit the potential of information systems, reduce damage and loss, and improve warehouse safety.


The Handbook of Visual Analysis

The Handbook of Visual Analysis

Author: Theo Van Leeuwen

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0761964770

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The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The Handbook: Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology Shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects Exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data, including, newspaper images, family photos, drawings, art works and cartoons Includes examples from the authors' own research and professional practice The Handbook of Visual Analysis, which demonstrates the importance of visual data within the social sciences offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies.