Encore: Smart Placement: The Mapping Process
May 18, 2017
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Question: On your way to the Visual Where, what do you do before laying down floor borders? Answer: You implement Smart Placement. This is a surprise step Gwendolyn Galsworth (your host and visual expert) discovered twenty-two years ago when her then-attempts at traditional 5S failed. Part of that failure, she realized, stemmed from people laying down "lines" that simply traced where workplace items were—instead of validating the current location of the functions those items represented or improving it. In response, she inserted a step before implementing borders: Smart Placement. This week in the second show in the series, Galsworth walks you, step by step, through Smart Placement mapping. She also emphasizes the need for trainers/coaches to do their own homework in advance while also preparing for messy people issues associated with new layouts. Listen and learn how to amplify and anchor your 5S in visual thinking and operator inventiveness. This is a LIVE show. Call-ins welcome!
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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.