CITEC, Inc. - Manufacturing and Technology Solutions

Visual Controls is a means of managing a value stream, or a cell, whereby everyone walking into the area (GEMBA) can understand the performance of that area in an instant. Visual Controls enables self-management of a cell or a value stream. Visual Controls replaces management by “remote control” (which has never worked that well anyway).

The 7 areas for Visual Controls are:

Schedule and Delivery Controls
Quality Controls
Work Controls
Facility Controls
Equipment & Tooling Controls
Performance Improvement Controls
Material Flow Controls

Realize how familiar we are with Visual Controls using an example from our everyday lives
Understand each of the 7 Types of Visual Controls using photos of each type from actual company examples
Do a baseline audit of current level of Visual Controls using an Audit Checklist and plotting your results on a Visual Controls Radar Chart
Learn about the 10 Steps to Implementing Visual Controls
Applications exercises for each of the 7 Types of Visual Controls
Appreciating the difference between traditional supervision & management and managing via Visual Controls using “A Day In The Life of a Supervisor” (from Toyota)

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Leadership Team (operation managers & supervisors)
Staff (managers, supervisors, engineers, and other individual contributors)
Value Stream Team Members

1 day, 8 hours

Visual Controls is part of an overall Lean Enterprise initiative. Contact a member of our Lean Team -- Eric Myers, Jim Myers, John Pinkerton or Terry Wiley -- to get started on your Lean Pathway to Success today.