Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

Piles of things is a known trigger for massive motion. As we continue our journey through the fourteen principles of smart placement, we learn not only how to order those piles but how to organize them to support our performance outcomes. This week, your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, walks you through Principle 9: ways to sort not only components and supplies into a coherent pattern but, if need be, the entire layout of your area. Or in the case of Scania Trucks, the entire production floor; the result: a 30% increase in productivity and cancellation of plans to build a new plant. Then, in Principle 10, you learn how co-locate different workplace items for a specific task. Called “Design-To-Task,” this approach is indispensable to complex machine change over, patient delivery or assembly processes. Then on to “Use the Existing Architecture,” one of the many double-up functions in workplace visuality. Tune in and learn how to utilize these in your company.