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Supporting a Lean Culture and Quality Management in the Digital Age

Digital visual management puts visual tools into the hands of team members across multiple sites

Nicola Olivetti
Wed, 05/22/2019 - 12:01
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According to a report by PwC, industrial sectors worldwide plan to invest $900 billion in Industry 4.0 each year. Despite these growing technology investments, only a few technologies are significantly mature to drive measurable quality impacts. Digital visual management (DVM) is one of them, being the fundamental link that bridges the lean culture and quality management in the digital age. 

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What is digital visual management?

The vast majority of all the information and communication is visual. The human brain processes visual information significantly faster than text. When a relevant image is paired with audio material, two-thirds of people retain the information three days later.

Organizations dedicated to continuous improvement take advantage of this reality and use DVM to engage staff, provide insight into key information, and to ensure improvement projects are moving forward as scheduled.

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Submitted by Allie G (not verified) on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 08:45

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Nicola, thank you for providing such a strong background of DVM's importance. In an age where technology and digitization is growing more and more superior, it's vital that businesses, and the teams within them, keep up with it and use it to the best of their ability. As someone who is a full time student and also works in an R&D Facility, I've observed the use of DVM in a wide range of methods. On the school end, my major consists of group projects in nearly every course, but my university is primarily a commuter school and everyone has very busy and diverse schedules. This makes meeting consistently rather difficult and inconveinent. The use of digital platforms where we can all contribute, view progress, have visibility to who's made contributions, and have access to it whenever we have our laptops (or even phones) it's made it so much easier to succeed on these assignments. The use of screen sharing or any Google platform (docs, sheets, etc.) have allowed much more efficient group work.

On the work end, I see DVM used among several platforms in project teams. The company I work for is international and very interdepartmental for projects, so having a platform where the team can access real-time progress and have clear visibility of project goals makes communication a lot easier. It gives clear deadlines, action items, visibility of completed work, and reminders of the end goals of the project. Without it, there's be a lot of miscommunication and the process would definitely go slower. Out of curiosity, what are some of the main challenges you've encountered using DVM in the workplace? Also, do you have any prefered platforms for DVM?

Informative article.

-AG

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