Visual Management

Virtual Signs for Visual Communication

September 5, 2021January 20, 2016 by Mike Wilson

Improve Visual Communication with Virtual Signs Creating a visual workplace can help your facility to improve safety, reduce waste and generally help everything run much more smoothly throughout the day. In most situations you can use things like floor signs, floor marking tape, wall signs and more to convey clear and helpful messages to anyone working in the area. There are times, however, when it is impossible to use these options. Whether it is because …

Use Visual Signs and Implement Lean

September 5, 2021September 5, 2013 by Mike Wilson

Any facility that is considering implementing lean strategies into their workflow, will want to take a moment to look at how visual triggers can help support lean initiatives. The lean strategies are all about eliminating waste, doing things efficiently and having an environment which supports constant improvement. This requires that a lot of information be passed from person to person or from a given environment to the people working in it. The fastest way to …

Tips and Techniques for a Visual Workplace

September 5, 2021June 25, 2013 by Mike Wilson

When thinking about safety and efficiency in the work place it is important to look at it from a visual perspective. In today’s world a facility no longer only has people who speak English fluently. Many times people come in from other countries where English is their second language, or customers or suppliers come in from other countries for a tour. With this in mind it is important to create a visual workplace which will …

September 5, 2021June 24, 2013 by Mike Wilson

Visual management is an important process which can help improve the safety and efficiency of many types of facilities. What visual management is at its core is the idea that when people walk into a particular area they should be able to immediately be able to know some important pieces of information, even without being directly told. The information conveyed could be things like where there are dangers, the types of dangers, available exits and …

Using aisle marking tape to comply with OSHA standards

September 5, 2021March 7, 2013 by Mike Wilson

OSHA, the Occupational Essential Safety and Health Maintenance, is known for issuing all kinds of guidelines and restrictions for even the smallest, most insignificant information, and has a lot of influence about all things that happen within the industrial facility. OSHA agents clearly enjoy swooping on any type of containment strategy that falls slightly next to the prescribed standard even if it works perfectly fine to your business in topic; such as small debris or …