ABSTRACT
This chapter explains some of the practical aspects of defining a territory — how to identify a territory and how to describe a team's activities and responsibilities — as well as discussing the importance of preparing a communication area and keeping the territory neat and well organized. The team's territory occupies the role of a basic channel in a conventional communication network; it is a unit connected to every other unit, an essential link in the system of information exchange. The chapter looks at the advantages offered by visitors to a visual factory. In every factory where a successful visual mode of organization has been introduced, work areas are remarkably well ordered and clean. The allocation of space demands a rigorous discipline, because it requires anticipation of anything that may occur in the specific territory; if the flow of work-in-process is not under control it is difficult to allocate space accurately.
