Guide To Visual Management for a Lean System
Visual Management is the lifeblood of a Lean production system. Learn the details of great visual management....
Lean Visual Management Tools: 5 Types of Visual Controls
Visual Management and Visual Controls go hand in hand they are the life blood of a Lean production system. Raed...
Practical Tips for Warehouse Signage
We often talk about the importance of visual controls, and how they help to improve the efficiency of our teams....
Visual Workshop Process – Colour the Work Centres When Selecting the Best Layout
When designing a new factory, warehouse or officespace it can be easier for your teams to understand and buy in...
The 3 Essentials of a Lean Visual Management Board
Visual Management is the key to driving change in your business. Brush up on your knowledge with our 3 Essentials...
How to Build Your Own Kanban Boards
Building your own Kanban board can be a lot easier if you follow these three considerations....
Four Simple Tips for a Successful Kanban System
4 Simple Steps for an Effective Kanban System Kanban Systems or Pull Systems of various types are now common across...
“Lean Won’t Work Here”, Try the “Quick Wins” Approach Instead
Is there a way for people not to “roll their eyes" when the “lean” word is out of the bag?...
Embedding PDCA Thinking into Our Visual Management
Embedding PDCA thinking into our visual management systems, particularly the Check and Act mindset, helps us to be more effective...
Managing Knowledge Work with a Kanban System
In a manufacturing environment, we can quickly move to a visual display of the work to allow our team to...
Lead Metrics and Lag Metrics for Visual Controls
Metrics are a key ingredient for improved communication in a visual Lean workplace and are essential for good Lean Daily...
Creating a Visual Management Board
Visual management boards provide your team with a means to display and easily communicate the status of key production metrics....
Five Tips to Designing an Effective Team Visual Management Board
We know that communicating business performance to staff through visual management boards can and does help employee engagement and drive...
The Truth about Visual Management Boards: Factors in Picking a Visual Management Design
If takt time is the heart of lean production, visual management represents the nervous system in lean management. Visual management...
The Top 4 Ways to Fix Your Kanban System
Congratulation on implementing your kanban system! After some time, cracking in your kanban system may begin to appear and you...
What Tasks to Add to a Red Green Task Board?
We have previously talked about the benefits of using a Red-green task board (also known as a Kamishibai board or...
Visual Controls in your Workplace
Visual controls are an important part of management in every manufacturing and office workplace allowing quick recognition of the information...
5S and a Visual Workplace – Essential for Sustaining Lean Manufacturing
Many lean experts are critical of 5S and think it is a superficial tool. However while, 5S and Visual Workplace...
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