Visual Workplace Author Wins Shingo Research Prize

PharmaManufacturing.com
04/19/2006

Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through Technologies of the Visual Workplace, by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, received a Shingo Research Prize this month. The award was given at the recent 18th Annual Shingo Prize Conference and awards ceremony in Covington, Ky.

Dr. Galsworth has two articles on PharmaManufacturing.com. They are: The Visual Pharmaceutical Workplace and On the Cutting Edge of Lean: The Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking.

Amid a manufacturing environment plagued by layoffs and outsourcing, Visual Workplace shows manufacturers how to save time and money by unlocking the language of the Toyota Production System in a visual way.

This includes the use of visual cues and systems in the workplace which help:

• Employees find more efficient ways to get work done;
• Eliminate waste;
• Create a more spirited, engaged work force; and
• Produce higher quality products.

The Shingo Research Prize recognizes researchers throughout the world who promote new knowledge and understanding of manufacturing and business improvement methods. Dr. Galsworth is one of eight recipients this year. (See the full list here.)

She is the president of Quality Methods International, Inc, a consulting and training company that specializes in visual workplace technologies. For more than 20 years she has helped companies like Lockheed-Martin, Rolls-Royce, Delphi Automotive, Sears and Pratt & Whitney dramatically improve their bottom lines. For more information, go to www.visualworkplace.com.

To receive a review copy of Visual Workplace, which includes of hundreds of visual workplace solutions in pictures from factory floors around the world, please contact: Michele Sobota, MediaConnections, mediaconnections@sbcglobal.net; (269) 873-3373.