Train-the-Trainer Tracks

Track-2: Visual Workplace/Visual Order Implementation Suite

“QMI’s Visual Order is like 5S on steroids!”
Aleta Sherman, CAMT, Boulder, Colorado

The first level of the Technologies of the Visual Workplace (which Galsworth sometimes calls the “Pathway to the Visual Workplace”) is visual order, the doorway that is wholly owned by line-associates—those employees who work on the value-add level. Apply the process called 5S+1 and produce the outcome called visual order, also known as the visual where and Automatic Recoil.

Do not confuse visual order with industrial housekeeping (aka, workplace organization)—or the 5S+1 method that produces visual order with 5Ss, 6Ss or 4Ds. They are very different.

The differences are both in content (knowledge) and the implementation approach to apply that content (know-how). I do not mean to suggest that the QMI system is superior to all others. It does, however, have several core elements that make it distinctive from the others. Based on the results of dozens of successful implementations, they produce highly effective and sustainable outcomes across a range of work venues—including forges, continuous process manufacturing, and hospitals.

Track-2 in VLI’s curriculum trains trainers in detail not only in how to teach and coach the concepts, principles, tools and practices of 5S+1/Visual Order®—but as importantly how to prepare for and then support and sustain this important visual conversion. Core to this is establishing (or strengthening) an enterprise-wide improvement infrastructure.

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