- Visuals in Lean Manufacturing
- Why are Visuals Important?
- Visuals Support Job Training
- Visuals Build Operational Stability
- Visuals Sustain Kaizen Improvements
Visual Workplace = Just-in-Time Information
Brady visuals help lean practitioners to reinforce standards, highlight abnormalities and sustain improvements.
Visual Workplace - also known as Visual Factory or Visual Management - is a lean manufacturing concept that emphasizes the need for critical information at the point of use.
Although visuals often go unnoticed, they are vital to optimizing efficiency and safety in daily life and at work. Visual workplace can greatly improve an organization's productivity, cost, quality, on-time delivery, inventory and equipment reliability.
Visual Applications in Lean Manufacturing
Identify a place for everything and keep everything in its place. |
Promote “one right way” for optimal efficiency, quality and safety. |
Highlight workplace hazards and reinforce safe work practices. |
Streamline inventory and smooth production flow with these tools. |
Simplify maintenance tasks and detect abnormalities at a glance. |
Expand shop floor communication and make performance visible. |
Download the 5S / Visual Workplace Handbook
This free 20-page, full-color handbook explains how to implement a 5S / visual workplace program.
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