Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Visual Control

What is Visual Control?

• Visual control are means, devices, or mechanisms that were designed to
manage or control our operations (process) so as to meet the following purposes:
• make the problems, abnormalities, or deviation from standards visible to everyone
and thus corrective action can be taken immediately,
• display the operating or progress status in a easy to see format.
• provide instruction.
• convey information.
• provide immediate feedback to people.

Potential Benefits of Visual Control :


• Implementing Visual Control in the plant would help the companies to exposing abnormalities, problems, deviations, waste, unevenness, and unreasonability to people,
thus corrective actions can be taken immediately to:
• correct the problems,
• reduce manufacturing costs,
• reduce possible waste,
• shorten production lead time and thus keep the delivery due date.
• reduce inventory.
• ensure a safe and comfortable working environment.
• increase company's profit.

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