Visual factory: Basic principles and the 'zoning' approach

Bilalis, Nikolaos; Scroubelos, G.; Antoniadis, Aristomenis; Emiris, Dimitrios M.; Koulouriotis, Dimitrios E.

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“…A major challenge for many companies is not having all the information needed available, but rather analysing and communicating it in an effective way. In order for information to be effectively communicated, it must be visible, clear and simple in its presentation, without excluding necessary detail (Bilalis et al 2002). In this sense, Visual Management (VM) becomes a powerful tool for supporting managerial and decision-making processes in organisations by creating a strategy which delivers vital information as close to the point of use as possible (Galsworth 2005;Murata and Katayama 2010b).…”

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Do companies with greater deployment of participation systems use Visual Management more extensively? An exploratory study

Jaca

Viles

Jurburg

et al. 2013

International Journal of Production Research

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One of the most important enablers of continuous improvement sustainability is ease of communication, and doing so in a way that can be understood by all employees and allows information to flow rapidly throughout the company. Visual Management (VM) provides significant benefits in communication and standardisation which boosts the effectiveness of improvement systems. This article presents an in-depth literature review about the concept of VM and its benefits, and provides results from an exploratory study carried out in the Basque Country that aims to ascertain the usage of VM in 52 companies. Based on a literature review, 20 different VM elements were identified for improving the workplace. The implementation of these elements was studied, as was the relationship of VM with employee participation systems. The results of this study show a general moderate implementation of VM tools in companies with implementation levels differing according to company size. Some of the lowest scores are detected in the areas of visual control of quality, the displaying of indicators and process visibility. Moreover, statistical differences were identified between the implementation of suggestion systems and improvement teams and the implementation level of VM tools.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Do companies with greater deployment of participation systems use Visual Management more extensively? An exploratory study

Jaca

Viles

Jurburg

et al. 2013

International Journal of Production Research

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“…In another perspective, information availability is not a problem but communication of information is often not efficient enough (Bilalis et al, 2002). Communication is essential to provide new knowledge and solve problems among involved actors (Andersson andBellgran, 2009, Taxén andLilliesköld, 2008).…”

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“…Furthermore, visualization helps to reduce eight wastes by supporting fruitful communication, cross-functional work, and decision-making procedure, strengthen the project identity, facilitating project management, reducing lead time for development projects and finally inspire workers in a positive way (Andersson and Bellgran, 2009). The best way of visualization consists of graphical representations, posters, pictures, symbols, transparencies and color-coding along with audio signals (Bilalis et al, 2002). Human brain processes the pictures much more easily than a text.…”

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Supporting Production System Development through the Obeya Concept

Javadi

Shahbazi

Jackson

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Manufacturing Industry as an important part of European and Swedish economy faces new challenges with the daily growing global competition. An enabler of overcoming these challenges is a rapid transforming to a value-based focus. Investment in innovation tools for production system development is a crucial part of that focus which helps the companies to rapidly adapt their production systems to new changes. Those changes can be categorized to incremental and radical ones. In this research we studied the Obeya concept as a supporting tool for production system development with both of those approaches. It came from Toyota production system and is a big meeting space which facilitates communication and data visualization for a project team. Four lean companies have been studied to find the role of such spaces in production development. Results indicate a great opportunity for improving those spaces and their application to radical changes in production development projects

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“…One type of research taking VM into its centre is to describe or suggest the use of a VM method or tool in a production setting e.g. colour coding of walls (Bilalis et al, 2002), diverse production control boards (Parry and Turner, 2006) or the extensive VM role in the design of cell production systems (Kulak et al, 2005). Another type of research focuses on discussing the principles and barriers for a VM function or outcome, such as process transparency, that is rendered at a work setting through VM (e.g.…”

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“…Some of the terms found in the literature include Visual Management (Imai, 1997;Goodson, 2002;Liff and Posey, 2004;Drew et al, 2004;Bonavia and Marin, 2006;Denis and Shook, 2007;Liker and Hoseus, 2008;Waeyenbergh and Pintelon, 2009;Papadopoulos et al, 2011), visual workplace (Greif, 1991;Hirano, 1995;Galsworth, 1997;Galsworth, 2005), visual controls (Schonberger, 1986;Ohno, 1988;Monden, 1998;Liker, 2004;Mann, 2005), visual factory (Bilalis et al, 2002;Aik, 2005), shop floor management (Suzaki, 1993), visual tools (Parry and Turner, 2006) and visual communication (Mestre et al, 1999). The abundance of the terminology, however, does not similarly yield detailed explanations.…”

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Visual management in production management: a literature synthesis

Tezel

Koskela

Tzortzopoulos

2016

JMTM

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Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to holistically discuss, explore and synthesise the key literature on Visual Management, an important, yet highly fragmented subject that is frequently referred in lean production accounts. Research Methodology -An extensive literature review was conducted to classify the current literature, to explore the different aspects and limitations of the current discussions on the subject, to clarify in what ways Visual Management benefits manifest themselves in a workplace and to identify the future research focus. Findings-Visual Management is an important close-range communication strategy based on cognitively effective information conveyance. This strategy has been frequently discussed in the production management literature. However, (a) the literature is fragmented as to the roles of Visual Management in a production setting, (b) the body of literature lacks integrated focus and cohesion with an abundance of related terminology from scholarly works and consultant books, (c) a practical VM tools taxonomy and a visual workplace implementation framework were presented (d) there is poor clarity with regards to the functions (benefits) that Visual Management may provide within organisations; nine conceptual Visual Management functions were proposed (e) a wide array of future research directions related to Visual Management was identified. Originality/Value-This paper synthesises the key literature related to Visual Management, providing a conceptual picture of the current knowledge.

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Visual factory: Basic principles and the 'zoning' approach

Cited by 32 publications

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Do companies with greater deployment of participation systems use Visual Management more extensively? An exploratory study

Do companies with greater deployment of participation systems use Visual Management more extensively? An exploratory study

Supporting Production System Development through the Obeya Concept

Visual management in production management: a literature synthesis

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