Michel Greif
The Visual Factory
Building Participation Through Shared Information
Productivity Press, 1991
Aperçu
This guide to visual communications is replete with examples from firms that succeeded and failed – including the reasons they did.
Recommendation
This now-30-year-old investigation of factory floor communications by manufacturing executive Michel Greif retains its relevance, at least for firms that have not yet implemented Lean processes or other tools that incorporate visuals. Since the book’s first publication, many modern companies will have replaced Greif’s analog message boards and charts with large digital displays. But his message remains pertinent and timely: Firms whose workers develop goals, standards, processes and performance indicators – and display them for everyone to see – collaborate, share ideas, solve problems, and improve more readily than those that don’t.
Summary
About the Author
Manufacturing executive Dr. Michel Greif taught operations management at France’s Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) Paris.
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