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Visual Control and Andon in Business

Visual control is a business management technique that communicates information visually rather than through text or writing. Andon refers to visual control tools used in Lean Manufacturing to simply and evidently express the state of a production system. Visual control can be implemented in areas like processes, storage, teams, quality assurance, and maintenance. It provides benefits like eliminating waste, improving quality, response time, security, and standardizing procedures. Common visual control tools include alarms, colored lamps, information boards, and indicator management.

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Visual Control and Andon in Business

Visual control is a business management technique that communicates information visually rather than through text or writing. Andon refers to visual control tools used in Lean Manufacturing to simply and evidently express the state of a production system. Visual control can be implemented in areas like processes, storage, teams, quality assurance, and maintenance. It provides benefits like eliminating waste, improving quality, response time, security, and standardizing procedures. Common visual control tools include alarms, colored lamps, information boards, and indicator management.

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ANDON: VISUAL

CONTROL
What is Visual
Control ?
is a business management
technique used in many places
where information is
communicated using visual cues
instead of texts or other written
instructions.
What is andon?
Andon is an expression of Japanese origin that means "lamp" and that is related to visual
control. At the same time, it is considered as an element of the Lean Manufacturing philosophy,
which groups together a set of practical communication measures used to express, in an evident
and simple way, the state of some productive system.
When should visual control be
implemented?

Its implementation can be carried out, among many others, in the areas of:

• Process or manufacturing
• Storage.
• Team.
• Quality assurance.
• Maintenance.
• Security.
• Organizational management.
• Offices
What benefits does visual control bring?
• The main benefit of visual control lies in the improvement of the flow of relevant
information, and in the standardization of communication.
Andon's implementation or visual control can contribute to:
- Eliminate waste or changes.
- Improve the quality.
- Improve response time.
- Improve security
- Standardize procedures.
- Improve work planning.
- Contribute to order and organization.
- Stimulate participation.
- Motivate staff.
- Reduce costs.
Visual control of equipment and spaces.

Visual control of production.

Types of Visual control in the workplace.


visual control
(Andon) Visual quality control.

Visual security control.

Indicator management
ALARMS

Alarms are a basic type of audio-visual control, usually used


to communicate urgent situations.
1 Sound: Security situation that implies alert to the
company's security department.
2 Sounds: Security situation that involves alert and call to
the entire security brigade of the company. The rest of the
collaborators must remain attentive, but they can continue
with their work.
3 Sounds: Serious security situation that involves alert and
call to the entire security brigade of the company. The rest
of the collaborators must evacuate calmly and go to the
established refuge sites.
COLOR LAMPS (TORRETAS)
Colored lamps, also known as turrets, are installed in
production lines, equipment or manufacturing cells;
with the purpose of communicating their status.

• White / Blue: Problems related to the raw material


(for example: shortage).
• Green: Equipment or cell operating normally.
• Yellow: Inactive equipment or cell due to some
maintenance failure. If the light is flashing it may
represent a change of reference.
• Red: Equipment or cell with quality problems, or in
which an accident occurs.
INFORMATION BOARDS

• Information boards are visual control tools


used to provide traceability or automatic and
continuous monitoring of the production plan.
In practice, the board is usually programmed
with a counter whose rhythm is a function of
the takt time (customer purchase rate).
• "Productivity means doing things in such a way
that, in the case of the company, it is as close
as possible to its goal. Everything that takes a
company closer to its goal is productive;
everything that does not take it is
unproductive." The Goal (Eliyahu Goldratt).

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