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.

Visual Controls & Visual Managements

VISUAL CONTROLS:
• Various tools of visual management such as color-coding, charts, andon boards,
schedule boards, labels and markings on the floor.
VISUAL MANAGEMENT:
• When the normal state and abnormal state can be clearly and
visually defined, visual management is possible. In visual management, simple
visual tools are used to identify the target state, and any deviance is met with
corrective action.
Visual Management instructions should be unambiguous and clear. As much as possible both "what" and "why" should be obvious so there is no room for questioning in the critical moment. Instructions as visual management tools should make the abnormal condition very clear.