(Buker Inc.: Antioch, IL) -- Buker Inc. offers a Visual Factory Course for companies on their lean manufacturing journey. The course is a one-day event that defines the basic visual factory blueprint of best-in-class lean manufacturing factories. The course focuses on the visual tools being used in lean factories to drive continuous process improvement. The Visual Factory Course focuses on:

• Five pillars of workplace organization
• The value stream’s territory
• Visual production control
• Visual quality control
• Communication and visible progress

 “Many companies are engaged in lean manufacturing implementation, but most of them stop after some type of initial factory rearrangement,” says Michael Tincher, president of Buker. “The Visual Factory Course is designed to help these companies implement the visual factory characteristics that are paramount to driving continuous process improvements.”

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