At last, a comprehensive strategy for eliminating waste, sustaining lean gains, and unifying and aligning the work culture.

Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking, positions the Technologies of the Visual Workplace where they belong -as a powerful partner to your company's journey to excellence and a crucial ally of Lean. The outcome is dazzling bottom-line results and a spirited, unified and aligned work culture -a workforce of Visual Thinkers.

Dr. Galsworth delineates the progression of visual methods that build a fully-functioning visual work environment: Visual Order, Visual Standards, Visual Displays, Visual Metrics, visual problem solving, Visual Controls, visual pull systems, and Visual Guarantees (Poka-Yoke devices).

With 25 albums of actual visual solutions (over 200 full-color photographs) and 50 charts and frameworks, this book explains what it means to transform a company into a visual work environment -where timely, complete, and precise information enables the workforce to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking is Galsworth's acclaimed Visual Thinking seminar in book form -and much, much more. 2006 Shingo Prize Research Recipient.

Soft Cover
254 pages: including 207 full-color photographs + 50 full-color figures amp; charts