Visual Controls
Course Overview
Visual Controls / Visual Workplace, applied to the workflow, enables the day-to-day workplace to be self-explaining, self-regulating, and self-controlling. It is an essential element of KAIZEN Lean implementation in that it provides the ability to manage variances in process conditions (machines, materials, methods, manpower, and methods), and in product outcomes (quality, delivery, cost) at the SOURCE where the product is being made, while the product is being made.
Visual Controls / Visual Workplace can easily be applied in any workplace to:
- Schedule and Delivery Controls
- Quality Controls » Work Controls
- Facility Controls » Equipment/Tooling/Fixturing Controls
- Performance Improvement Controls
- Material Flow Controls
Faster response to problems and more thorough countermeasures possible with Visual Controls/Visual Workplace, as compared to traditional management controls, enable achievement of:
- 90% reduction in materials waste
- 75% reduction in floor space
- 900% improvement in product quality
- 90% reduction in lead time
- 50% reduction in variable costs etc.
Who Should Attend?
- Operators and Quality Inspectors
- SPC, Six Sigma Green Belts, Six Sigma Black Belts, Quality Assurance personnel
- Maintenance personnel
- Manufacturing engineering
- Design & Quality engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Production Supervisors and Managers
Prerequisites
Implementing visual controls should be part of your implementation plan from Value Stream Mapping. Therefore, a good working knowledge of Value Stream Mapping, and practical mapping experience are essential.