ABSTRACT
The status of virtually every process should be visible in Lean management. If takt time is the heart of Lean production, visual controls and the processes surrounding them represent the nervous system in Lean management. Visual controls are even more important in office processes; work in offices moves in the IT network where it cannot be seen. Chapter 2 introduced visual controls as the second principal element in Lean management; this chapter offers examples of visual controls for a variety of processes. Table 4.1 lists all the visual controls that are included in this chapter and throughout the book. In addition, several photographs show what several actual in-use examples of these visual controls look like.
