Picking up from last month’s discussion of the four principle elements of the Lean Management System, this month’s column will focus on the second element — visual controls. The four elements that ...

Visual controls are a means of signaling and controlling potential issues in your production. Displays are similar in concept but aren’t indicators of process status. Visual controls can be ...

You’ll likely hear all kinds of terms that generally mean the same thing. Visual control, visual management, make it visual, etc. And like so many principles that we learn from the Japanese ...

Organizations pursuing lean often rush to deploy visual management boards. They fill the walls with metrics and charts, performance data and improvement project plans. Sadly, as often as not, these ...

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