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 | | The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All) by Michel Greif ISBN-10: 0915299674 ISBN-10: 0-915299-67-4 ISBN-13: 9780915299676 ISBN-13: 978-0-915299-67-6 Hardcover 1991-02-01 Productivity Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description If you're aware of the tremendous improvements achieved in productivity and quality as a result of employee involvement, then you'll appreciate the great value of creating a visual factory. This book explains why conventional work areas, where fragmented information flows from "top to bottom," must be replaced by the "visual workplace," where information flows in every direction. It details how visual management can make the factory a place where workers and supervisors freely communicate so that every employee can take improvement action. The author's year-long worldwide research resulted in an abundance of practical recommendations. The communication techniques he suggests will:
A valuable resource for plant, operations, and human relations managers, this text discusses how successful companies develop meeting and communication areas, communicate work standard production controls such as kanban, and make goals and progress visible. Over 200 diagrams and photos illustrate the numerous visual techniques discussed. | ||
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The beginnings of Lean in the west? Michael Greif has written a book on lean principles long before the MIT study resulted in "The Machine the Changed the World". The foundation of lean is generally agreed to be the 5Ss, kaizen, and visual communication. This book, while focused on VC, does adequately cover the others. Consider this... the book was written in the late 80's, when Lean Manufacturing as a term had not yet been coined. And now, the review... this is an excellent study on visual communication. Although limited in scope (most practical examples were of western European factories), it is a study that should not be limited to factories; rather, one that has application in many aspects of daily life. Practical examples, diagrams, drawings, and checklists abound. Definitely user-friendly, and as the subject matter demands, visually communicative. | ||
A Way to Improve Quality & Productivity I think this easy to read book is a must for all the industry sectors. It illustrates visual management (or visual communication; VC) as a very important issue to boosting the factorys' or companys' productivity through increasing the effectiveness of the employees' from head management to the shop floor workers by the effective sharing of information and by encouraging the workers to participate in developing these information. In addition; VC helps in building a sense of belonging to the factory or company within the workers themselves which will work in the factory (company) best interest. The book introduces guide lines for applying the VC. I think that the real cases covered along with the many different graphs and pictures really helped in clearing out many points. | ||
I own 33 copies and use it as a text for day-long workshops. This is a very readable and credible work. Chapter six on visual process indicators is my favorite. It was an a-ha moment for me!! | ||