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Visual Systems

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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.

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.

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!

I found this book to be an extremely helpful guide when I was learning about Visual Systems. It's beneficial to get the full picture with real world anecdotes where the author has implemented her methodology. Other books I've read tend to be too abstract and theoretical. This book is real, fun to read, but serious, systematic, and comprehensive in its 5S/Visual Workplace approach. This was a very easy book to read and I still use it as a reference when our team gets stuck in our implementation. I look forward to reading her latest book, Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking.

Few authors understand the magnitude of impact that visual devices have on a manufacturing shop floor as well as does Dr. Galsworth. She has taken what most people pass over superficially as an element of Lean Manufacturing (visual systems, yeah we got that) as a systematic, layer by layer levels of visuality, going from simple 5S devices such as borders and labels, to embedded foolproofing visuals that simply do not allow operator error. Throw out your other references; this is the only one you need!

Provides an excellent, practical approach to implementing 5S and visual systems written with a real understanding of implementation issues. I used this book as the basis for training a 4,000-person site; our customers now ask if they can send their staffs to see how 5S "should be done."

In the quest to reduce waste, you would do well to eliminate this book from your reading list. If you are looking for a guide to visual management (tools, techniques), this book comes up (way) short. Although the author acknowledges that visual management is part of a lean workplace, it is obvious she has little knowledge or experience with either. Her utter lack of understanding of accepted terminology, redefining of basic definitions, bad examples, and other glaring errors make this book a 'must miss'. Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this one (put the money in your retirement fund!)