The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All)

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The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information (See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All)
by Michel Greif
from Productivity Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Good start, then weakens
  Pro:
  -Interesting introduction to visual factory... for a few chapters
  -Coverage of the most popular visuals, including a description of kanban, andon, etc.
  -Some unique perspectives that I had not seen before which was very refreshing
  Con:
  -Verbose at times... descriptions are eloquent but overly (and unnecessarily?) lengthy
  -Virtually no visuals. What visuals there are, they are either poor drawings or grainy black and white photos.
  -Too much emphasis on the... more info

• bad book
  it lacks of what it preaches no visual book at all. very few examples much history. might be good for school but not for lean manufacturing professionals
  

• Step by step towards entrepreneurial workers by using Visual communication.
  Michael Greif has written this book based on a deep insight in chemistry between people working within a factory. This insight is based on his experience that visual communication can be a benefit or be a disaster! So read this book before you start some guru-communication-show in your plant.
  Already in his foreword he clearly mentions: 'every company that introduced visual communication was also pursuing significant changes in its modes of management and organization.'
  Reading this book will... more info

• The beginnings of Lean in the west?
  Michael Greif has written a book on lean principles long before the MIT study resulted in "The Machine the Changed the World".
  The foundation of lean is generally agreed to be the 5Ss, kaizen, and visual communication. This book, while focused on VC, does adequately cover the others. Consider this... the book was written in the late 80's, when Lean Manufacturing as a term had not yet been coined.
  And now, the review... this is an excellent study on visual communication. Although limited in scope... more info

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