Napoleon’s Defeat Made VisualOne picture represents 410,000 lives
Tue, 11/29/2016 - 15:09
Often enough, you have heard me say that 50 percent of our brain function is dedicated to finding and then interpreting visual data. This is not whimsy. This is not speculation. This is fact. The eye rules. Though we utilize our other senses quite… Visuality at Work: A More Complete DescriptionA visual workplace can improve productivity by as much as 30%
Mon, 11/14/2016 - 10:05
In a visual workplace, information is converted into simple, universally understood visual devices and installed in the process of work itself, as close to the point of use as possible. The result transforms a formerly mute work environment into one… Speed Isn’t Everything, Part 1Lean and visual defined
Mon, 10/03/2016 - 15:40
Summer with its balmy evenings and long talks with good friends, lemonades in hand, is over. Let’s set the groundwork for this new season and get our definitions in place, once again—the difference between visual and lean.
What is lean?
Technically… Competing Definitions and OutcomesThe West’s limited understanding and uninhibited tweaking of lean
Wed, 07/27/2016 - 11:32
Does lean have a clearly delineated limit? When a company starts out on that path, should it expect an endpoint, a completion, an arrival? Is it a forever commitment, or is it a bounded outcome that companies can achieve and then move on? In short… Visual Scheduling: A Problem-Solving MechanismSeeing is believing
Mon, 05/23/2016 - 13:09
Visual scheduling is a plain, two-dimensional format that maps out which products, parts, or subassemblies need to be produced, and when, in what quantity, and in what order. Nothing could be simpler.
In companies where schedules aren't published… Information Deficits and the Visual WorkplaceWorking in a place without visual information is like trying to reach a destination without a map
Thu, 08/19/2010 - 06:00
As every company knows, workplace information—production schedules, customer requirements, engineering specifications, operational methods, tooling and fixtures, material procurement, work-in-process, and the thousand other details on which the… Visual Devices: Letting the Workplace SpeakInfuse your workplace with intelligence
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 05:30
Editor's note: In this second in a series of articles on workplace visuality, Gwendolyn Galsworth, Ph.D., author of Work That Makes Sense (Visual Lean Enterprise Press, 2010) and Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (Visual-Lean Enterprise Press,… The Visual WorkplaceDo you speak excellence?
Thu, 08/05/2010 - 06:00
Editor's note: In this first in a series of articles on workplace visuality, Gwendolyn Galsworth, Ph.D., author of Work That Makes Sense (Visual Lean Enterprise Press, 2010) and Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (Visual-Lean Enterprise Press, 2005… Advancing Quality Through Visual ThinkingPrecision results when the processes behind quality outcomes are made visual.
Sun, 02/01/2009 - 12:55
Excellence is a part of life, and we must strive for it, especially if our mistakes create problems for others. Mistakes are costly; they hit the bottom line. Some are costly enough to put us out of business.
The code word for a mistake-free…
