Visual Factories

Getting Your Organisation Talk to You

Course Outline

  • What is a Visual Factory? Why would you want one?
  • Workplace Organisation (5S/ 5C)
  • Why it is more than housekeeping
  • How to make it work in your industry
  • Getting your plant to tell you what is wrong
  • Visual Management; Visual Display and Visual Control
  • Visual dashboards
  • Being in control
  • Structured display of performance, communication, problem solving and action tracking
  • Escalation of issues
  • Setting the standard, Keeping the Standard
  • Effective Leadership: Process Confirmation

Training Notes

A full hardcopy set of the slides and handouts will be given to all delegates who attend the course

Why A Visual Factory?

With a visual factory an organisation can understand the status of their operations “at a glance”, speeding up problem solving and increasing situational awareness, making for a more productive and safer factory.

Leaders are more effective, the business is more focused on the important issues, operators have greater awareness, deviations from standard and target are identified and addressed faster, and issues are escalated rapidly to the correct personnel allowing resources to be deployed quicker.

Visual Management tools and techniques as part of Lean Manufacturing originate in the automotive sector, but there is not always a direct read across into other industries.

Our trainer has a nearly twenty year heritage adapting and implementing Lean to different industries, so delegates will benefit from being taught by someone with this knowledge and experience.

A Visual Factory:

• Aids and improves decision making by leaders and managers

• Focuses and aligns personnel on the important issues

• Minimises lost time in wasteful activities

• Supports continuous improvement across the organisation

• Improves safety

• Builds pride, ownership and professionalism

• Builds trust with stakeholders

This course will cover a range of tools and techniques that typically fall under the banner of Visual Factory.