The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information / Edition 1

by Michel Greif

Overview

If you're aware of the tremendous improvements achieved in productivity and quality as a result of employee involvement, then you'll appreciate the great value of creating a visual factory. This book explains why conventional work areas, where fragmented information flows from "top to bottom," must be replaced by the "visual workplace," where information flows in every direction. It details how visual management can make the factory a place where workers and supervisors freely communicate so that every employee can take improvement action.

The author's year-long worldwide research resulted in an abundance of practical recommendations. The communication techniques he suggests will:

• Foster cohesion within groups of employees.
• Turn fault-based into fact based communication.
• Overcome such problems as absenteeism and high defect rates.
• Stimulate an unending flow of suggestions from employees.

A valuable resource for plant, operations, and human relations managers, this text discusses how successful companies develop meeting and communication areas, communicate work standard production controls such as kanban, and make goals and progress visible. Over 200 diagrams and photos illustrate the numerous visual techniques discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780915299676
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/1991
Series:	See What's Happening in Your Key Processes--At a Glance, All
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: The Renaissance: Platonism; 2: Cultura Hominis: Giovanni Pico, Marsilio Ficino and the Idea of Man; 3: Renaissance Neoplatonism [and Literary Criticism]; 4: Marsilio Ficino: Daemonic Mathematics and the Hypotenuse of the Spirit; 5: In principio: Marsilio Ficino on the Life of Text; 6: The Ficinian Timaeus and Renaissance Science; 7: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Marsilio Ficino: Etenebris Revocaverunt; 8: Marsilio Ficino, Levitation, and the Ascent to Capricorn; 9: Marsilio Ficino and the Language of the Past; 10: The Birth Day of Venus; 11: «Quisque in Sphaera Sua»: Plato’s Statesman, Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, and the Resurrection of the Body; 12: At Variance: Marsilio Ficino, Platonism and Heresy; 13: Sending Archedemus: Ficino, Plato’s Second Letter, and its Four Epistolary Mysteries; 14: To Gaze Upon the Face of God Again: Philosophic Statuary, Pygmalion and Marsilio Ficino; 15: Marsilio Ficino on Saturn, the Plotinian Mind, and the Monster of Averroes; 16: Eurydice in Hades: Florentine Platonism and an Orphic Mystery; 17: Prometheus Among the Florentines: Marsilio Ficino on the Myth of Triadic Power; 18: Ratio Omnium Divinissima: Plato’s Epinomis, Prophecy, and Marsilio Ficino; Corrigenda & Addenda

Editorial Reviews

"Does an excellent job of introducing the concepts of visual factories as well as providing a guideline for implementing them."

Dan Blount, Engineering Manager, Hewlett Packard 06/01/04

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