Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine current visual management activities and information needs
- Identify current visual management activities and provided information
- Establish extent of linkage of visual management activities and provided information to other competitive manufacturing strategies and techniques
- Identify problems and improvements which could be made
- Determine root cause of problems
- Determine visual management techniques and information needs for improvement to occur
- Determine benefit which would accrue from improvement and cost of providing the information
- Choose which things to display visually
- List all valuable information identified
- Rank possible information based on benefit/cost or other agreed basis
- Agree on the critical information and possible information sources which should be included in the visual management system
- Negotiate the provision of this critical information to an adequate precision and in a timely manner
- Choose display method
- Choose the most appropriate display method for each item of critical information
- Determine the most appropriate location for the visual display of each item of critical information
- Determine the appropriate source and approving authority for display information
- Review the chosen information, information source, display method and location to ensure the right display of the right information
- Validate data/information as required by methodology
- Review the results of visual management
- Review actual benefit gained and the actual cost of providing the information
- Validate the appropriateness of the information provided for delivering the intended outcome
- Initiate appropriate improvements to the visual management system
- Follow through on improvement actions to ensure they are fully implemented