This landmark book provides the detail you need to understand, implement, and support the indispensable first step on your journey to Visual Workplace: 5S+1: Visual Order^®.

After seeing her clients repeatedly fail when trying to implement 5S/Japanese style, Dr. Galsworth spent 15 years creating a methodology for industrial organization that works in the West. That method is 5S+1, the outcome of which is Visual Order-the Visual Where.

Visual Order is order you can see, order that functions, and order that is not only sustainable but also triggers dramatic levels of individual and team inventiveness. The result is a workplace that is populated by hundreds, even thousands, of visual devices and mini-systems that minimize or even eliminate Motion-moving without working (our name for the enemy)-and the Information Deficits that cause it.

In this book, Galsworth explains why Visual Order is so important and how to install it. Providing numerous case study examples, she spells out an implementation methodology that produces powerful bottom-line benefits, often with a 15%-30% increase in productivity.

Whether yours is a factory, forge, hospital, bank, school or gold mine, this book will also show you how to build an empowered and aligned workforce and create an improvement infrastructure in your company-or strengthen it if one already exists.

With over 120 photographs of actual Visual Solutions, this is the book that Bruce Hamilton (former chair of the Shingo Prize Board of Examiners) called "the best how-to book in the field today."

Soft Cover: 310 pages, including 122 photographs + 75 tables/frameworks/figures