To respond quickly to a changing marketplace with flexible production goals and zero defects, you need to understand at a glance what is going on in your workplace. Visual Control Systems will help everyone in your workplace become involved in monitoring the manufacturing process in a variety of ways. You'll learn how to plan and promote a visual control system factory-wide, how to implement the system thoroughly, and how to integrate it with a 5S (industrial housekeeping) program and continuous improvement.

It Includes:

• An introductory overview of visual control systems and their applications to factory management.
• Explains the basics of visual control systems; identifying the manufacturing areas where visual controls are most important.
• Case studies on the 5S approach using visual control systems.

Visual information is the key to focusing all the players on your manufacturing team on their common objectives. This valuable sourcebook is full of ideas you can use so the teammates know the score, all the time.