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"Competitive factories of tomorrow must rely on the knowledge and experiences of everyone, including production workers. The Visual Factory does an excellent job of introducing the concepts of visual factories as well as providing a guideline for implementing them. The industry examples were especially helpful."
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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:
- Foster cohesion within groups of employees.
- Turn fault-based into fact based communication.
- Overcome such problems as absenteeism and high defect rates.
- Stimulate an unending flow of suggestions from employees.
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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must for all that wish to create the best in visual comm.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All) (Hardcover)
The book was recommneded by most text books and lean guides, not to mention being published by the Productivity Press. It would've been better with more photos and diagrams, however it does contain some of the best info on the theory, background, planning, support and implementation of visual systems applied by most leading world class manufacturers
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing book on key Improvement Tool,
By Greg Watts (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All) (Hardcover)
Sadly this book is not as inspiring as the title suggests. As a practitioner of improvement tools in a variety of environments I was disappointed by this book. I can get enthusiastic about practically any topic on improvement and Visual Management is a key tool to getting teams involved. Unfortuneately the book suffers from an academic style that is hard to work your way through and failed to enthuse me on the topic. Even allowing for some losses in translation into English this is a slow and difficult read. Pictures and line drawings are used to illustrate the principles under discussion. However, there is too much repetition of subjects and priciples. This is not the best book I have read on manufacturing improvement or Visual Management.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews) 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A Way to Improve Quality & Productivity,
By Sawsan Bouresly - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All) (Hardcover)
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. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The beginnings of Lean in the west?,
By S. Jantzen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All) (Hardcover)
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. 16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I own 33 copies and use it as a text for day-long workshops.,
By dste2000@aol.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All) (Hardcover)
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!!
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