Encore: Smart Placement: Principles 1-7
June 1, 2017
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
How do we get smart about the placement of function at work? If you’ve been listening to The Visual Workplace, you now have a growing understanding of the HOW and the WHY of that. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth (your host and visual expert) continues to share the details of this core methodology—which she developed so operators could deploy higher dimensions of 5S and become more culturally aligned. This is where 5S and visual thinking begin their dance. After a quick review of the learning so far, hear the first four of the 14 Smart Placement Principles, principles that operators apply directly to their Could-Be or Dream Maps. Because these first four principles are simple, they get heads nodding and pave the way, gradually, to more complex considerations as value-add associates re-engineer the layout of function and create an accelerated flow of material, information and themselves into and through their work areas. Join us for an hour of practical, hands-on listening.
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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.
