Visual Systems [Hardcover]

Gwendolyn D. Galsworth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0814403204 | ISBN-13: 978-0814403204 | Edition: 1st

What visual workplace implementation process wouldnAt be enhanced by the inclusion of Dr. GalsworthAs landmark book, Visual Systems: Harnessing the Power of a Visual Workplace (Amacom, 1997)? This is the book Bruce Hamilton (GM/United Electric Controls, chairman/Shingo Prize board of examiners) calls 'the best how-to book in the field today'. This publication is included in the 'Visual Workplace Video Training System' Complete System and Foundation Set. Available to purchase separately. Free demo video of the 'Visual Workplace Video Training System' available - call Steve French on [phone].

Editorial Reviews

Review

" ""If you are unfamiliar with 'visual systems' and the

power they unleash for greater productivity, you

will find this book immensely valuable. If you are

experienced in this area, you will find this book a

great source for new thinking.""

-- Stanley Mickens, Operations Manager, Pratt

& Whitney"

Book Description

"When an industrial workplace (such as a machining area, assembly line, or loading dock) is dirty, cluttered or poorly marked, it's not just bad to the eyes -- it's bad for the business.

This book is a comprehensive guide to ""visual systems"" -- a highly successful approach that uses visual indicators, signs, controls, and guarantees to direct and support activities on the shop floor. The goal is a self-explaining, self-regulating workplace where critical information is shared rapidly, accurately -- and without speaking or reading a word.

Packed with case examples, photos, tables, and checklists, the book shows how visual systems can reduce costs by:

* radically improving both quality and safety

* triggering new levels of employee participation

* cutting wasted motion and needless use of space and materials

* creating a company-wide visual improvement ""language"""

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 17 and up
  
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814403204
• ISBN-13: 978-0814403204
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,355,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gwendolyn Galsworth is an author, educator, implementer, and a coach with more than 25 years in the field of workplace visuality. She can be reached at: www.visualworkplace.com (503-233-1784).

Considered a leading visual expert, Dr. Galsworth is the author of numerous books, including Work That Makes Sense, Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (Shingo Prize Recipient), Visual Systems, and Smart Simple Design. She is president/founder of QMI/Visual-Lean® Institute, a training, coaching and licensing firm, based in Oregon.

A Shingo Prize and former Malcolm Baldrige Examiner, Galsworth has helped companies, large and small, accelerate their rates of transformation, strengthen cultural alignments and achieve long-term, sustainable bottom-line outcomes through workplace visuality.Her clients include: Lockheed Martin, Hitchcock Industries, Parker Denison, Rolls-Royce, Royal Nooteboom Trailers, Delphi Automotive, Alcoa Aluminum, Trailmobile/Canada, Parker Denison, Crompton Greaves/India, Harris Corporation, Midwest Medical Research Center, Seton Name Plate, TVS Sundaram Clayton/India, Sears Home Services, and United Electric Controls.

In the 1980s, Galsworth worked closely with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, a western-based Poka-Yoke method--and with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC® method and Hoshin Kanri/X-Type Matrix Planning (policy deployment) for western audiences.

Dr. Galsworth holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University and has led American study missions to some of the world's finest production facilities, including those in Japan. She is a frequent keynote speaker on visual systems, strategic leadership, and cultural conversions.

When not on site with clients or teaching at the Institute, she can be found hiking in Oregon and the Lakes/UK--or working on her next book.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visual Systems : Harnessing the Power of the Visual, January 4, 2000

By 

Don Bennett (Pacific Northwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Systems (Hardcover)

This book provides the best overall coverage of the principles and practices of visual systems for the workplace available today. It includes very wise and practical guidelines for real world implementation.

We were so impressed with the book, that we arranged for the author to be the keynote speaker at our quality forum. The live presentation was a great reinforcement of the book. I have read this book 3 times, and plan to read it again soon. I gain new insights every time I read it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Workspace Magic in a Book, October 30, 2006

By 

lakshmilove "grace" (Kauai, HI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Systems (Hardcover)

The power of this book to create smooth operational flow in difficult

high intensity workplaces is unmistakeable. True excellence in visual

representations. Easy to follow guidelines with lasting impact on

profits and performance. By employing Ms. Galsworth's concepts, the elimination of confusion and clutter in the workplace has also had benefit in creating an environment where employees enjoy their work.

Highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A revolutionary breakthrough for systems organization at all levels, May 22, 2007

By 

R. James (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visual Systems (Hardcover)

One of the challenges of getting people to "get more organized" at work or at home for that matter is the fact that people are adults. It's hard to motivate adults to become neat and clean simply because it is "good for them", however much one would like to hope so.

Dr. Galsworth's book replaces the kind of policing-of-children approach seen in too many popular approaches to housekeeping (5S) and replaces it with a superbly effective process that she calls "5S+1: Visual Order." Visual Order certainly requires a clear, clean and safe work area. How else would visual information stick on previously dusty, grimy surfaces? But that is not the outcome. The outcome is Visual Order: order you can see; order that functions; order that liberates; order that inspires.

I have applied Dr. Galsworth's practical and insightful suggestions to both my office and home workspaces with phenomenal results. Personally, my productivity has tripled.

Visual Systems is the text book for this foundational level of transformation and the host of other tangible and intangible benefits that this process triggers in individuals and systems in any organization or workplace, professional or private. Invaluable!