| Workshop Description: |
Have you begun to implement 5S and organize your workplace? Has it given you the benefits you hoped to achieve? Are you ready to take your facility to the next level? This session will illustrate the differences between 5S and Visual Workplace and provide a strategy that will eliminate information deficits in the workplace.
Many companies that have used 5S to organize their facilities will tell you that they have removed unnecessary items from their work place and reduced time spent searching for essential items they do need. This is accomplished using the first 3 S’s (Sort, Set Shine). What about the 4 th and 5 th S’s (Standardize and Sustain)? These are difficult to know when they have been achieved. Really how do you know? It is usually someone’s opinion and not clearly obvious. Audits help to recognize your ability to standardize and sustain but there is not much else to help us identify these accomplishments. For many years 5S has been used interchangeably with Visual Workplace as one in the same. Companies that have become frustrated with 5S are now looking for more. They want drastic inventory reductions, improved cycle times, point of use work instructions, reduced storage requirements and increased machine utilization. But why haven’t the 5S’s yielded these types of improvements. Many are asking themselves the same question. The answer…missing information!
You may not have realized it before now, but you won’t get lean – until you get visual. What does that mean? Lean manufacturing – also known as Kaizen or continuous improvement, uses many tools to eliminate unseen waste. The foundation of these tools used to implement Lean is visual systems. That’s because the waste we’re trying to eliminate comes directly from a lack of information. Specifically – from hundreds – even thousands – of information deficits in our workplaces.
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| Specific Learning Objectives: |
Upon completion of this interactive simulation, participants will learn:
- Distinguish the differences between 5S and Visual Workplace.
- Learn how to integrate 5S into Visual Workplace.
- Identify the 5 key devices of Visual Workplace.
- Strategically implement Visual Workplace starting with a small area and spreading it throughout their facility.
- Create more effective visual systems.
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Speaker
Biography: |
Rhonda Kovera
Rhonda has 15 years experience of implementing Toyota Production System philosophies for manufacturing companies. She has a great deal of experience in areas such as product, manufacturing, continuous improvment and team building.
Her product experience includes: automotive (exterior mirrors, exterior trim, exterior lighting, and armrests and her manufacturing process experience includes; injection molding, zinc die cast, assembly processes, injection molding, foam and interior and exteriors.Rhonda has experience in continuous experince with Kanban, 5S, Visual Factory and JIT (Just In Time). Also Rhonda is experienced in team building that includes; effective communication, motivation, team development and leadership skills.
Rhonda has Corporate training for Visual Factory and 5S systems and has helped in the development of visual systems for industries including: automotive, aerospace, food, furniture, commercial products, hardward and telecommunications.
Rhonda has a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Western Michigan University, 1991
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