Management visuel en usine : nos conseils
Digital visual management is an essential asset for team leaders and site managers. It provides a global visibility of the field in order to better manage performance and to lead projects to success.
Despite the need to move to new digital solutions, digital visual management remains difficult to implement in industrial companies for several reasons: lack of lean maturity, lack of adequate tools or the need for support. So how do you implement digital visual management in the factory and get all your teams on board? Let's see 5 tips to optimize its implementation!
Tip 1: Define the KPIs and objectives you want to achieve
Digital visual management is based on operational KPIs, which you should define according to their usefulness to the team.
Focus on the quality of the indicators and not on the quantity: too much information on the screen will make the visualisation less relevant. This is the first step in the methodology that sets the framework for your project.
Display five KPIs that everyone can understand. Don't forget that tracking these numbers in real time in your problem-solving tools should above all allow for better decision making to solve problems more easily and point out the blocking points (continuous improvement)
Below is an example of an SQCDP in the Fabriq tool.
Tip 2: Take the time to set up your environment on the tool with your teams
The configuration of the solution at the workstation must be done by involving your teams: the choice of KPIs, the person responsible for updating the data, the frequency of the update, etc. We will work with you to customize the environment to your needs.
Once your environment is finalized, all you have to do is try it out! Your teams can give you feedback on their daily use.
De cette façon, les équipes sont impliquées et motivées dans cette nouvelle démarche d’amélioration continue ! N’oubliez pas que vos équipes sont la colonnes vertébrale du développement des projets, et c'est l'intérêt qu'elles y porteront qui déterminera leur pérennité.
Tip 3: Position the screen in a strategic place in the factory
The positioning of each visual management screen must be chosen carefully.
If we take the example of the food industry before the arrival of digital visual management, whiteboards had no place in the field for reasons of hygiene (movement, dust...).
For this, it is essential to choose the location of the screens beforehand. Consider all possible locations and choose the most strategic one: employees must be able to consult the information easily and regularly without distraction and poor readability conditions.
To use our tool you only need wifi. You then choose on which type of screen it is most useful to use our digital solution before choosing its location: on a large screen at the end of the line, on a tablet to perform your audits and field tours easily or via a smartphone.
Tip 4: Involve your teams in the Continuous Improvement culture
Digital visual management is an excellent way to kill two birds with one stone. Beyond its basic function of displaying data, why not use it to increase the culture of continuous improvement in the company ?
In a factory, it is the field teams that initiate and drive the change because they are at the heart of this process.
To start, you can organize an initial meeting with the team leaders to identify areas for improvement:
- Do teams do a lot of re-keying and have time-consuming tasks?
- Do they feel that the issues raised are well addressed?
- Do you feel that their level of commitment is decreasing and that they are not empowered enough?
- Can you consolidate all your data?
- Are you able to capitalise on your field data?
After this meeting, which is only a first step towards transformation, it will already be easier to understand the expectations of your employees. You will then be able to set up a strategy for implementing visual management more or less quickly. Little by little, the field teams will become real actors of change because the adoption of the chosen solution is the key!
Tip 5: Connect your visual management tools for better collaboration
The most important advantage of a digital collaboration tool is that you can centralise all the data you have in one tool. This way, everyone can easily access the information.
Indeed, according to a study conducted by Publicis Media in 2018, nearly 70% of people have a visual memory. It is therefore easier to retain visual information than written information.
How does connecting your visual management tools help your teams?
- Collaboration and communication are improved: each person sees how their work affects the work of others and this breaks down silos between teams;
- Awareness of each other's progress makes for greater transparency in meetings;
- Information is reported more quickly and in real time;
- Problem solving is accelerated;
- The environment on your screen is flexible, making it easier for the whole team to understand the information;
- The layout of the information and the visual data (histograms, colour hierarchies, etc.) save time in reading the information;
Par exemple, dans Fabriq lorsque vous réalisez une routine, l’historisation de leurs résultats vous permet de créer un ou plusieurs indicateurs de processus dans Fabriq. Ainsi, vous pouvez suivre le statut, le pourcentage de complétion et le score des audits/tours de terrain lors de vos réunions.
It is also easier to connect your digitised routines to the on-screen dashboards to carry out your Short Interval Animations (SIM). This way, you can manage corrective actions by consolidating and prioritising them during your meetings to act more quickly on performance gaps.
De fil en aiguille, vous visualisez plus facilement les informations et vous résolvez les problèmes plus rapidement grâce à une remontée plus rapide de l’information.
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