Smart Placement/Final Steps + Poka Yoke Insights
March 12, 2013
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Visuality based in principles means you can continue to expand workplace transparency far beyond the first cycle. Over the past two months, your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, has explained and described a set of 14 Smart Placement Principles and how to imbed them into the living landscape of work. The result? The flow of work content based on the actual function of the things that populate the work environment. In today’s show, this discussion is completed and next steps described. In addition, Galsworth shares key insights from the project she has undertaken in parallel to her show: revitalizing and strengthening her approach to poka-yoke/visual guarantees. In it, the true meaning of 100% Source Inspection becomes clear: the conversation between attributes. And the real use of poka-yoke devices comes to light: imbedding those attributes deeply into the process of work—or better yet into the design of the product so it can only be made right. Tune in for more.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
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Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
