Meeting regulations – visual management for food production
Fulfil Health & Safety and all other regulatory obligations. Use standout visuals to show your team how to comply. For example, like these Health & Safety boards. Raise awareness of site rules. Show your team what to do. Above all, give them instant points of reference.
Health and Safety boards for food production environments
Health and Safety boards for food production environments
Audit ready – visual management for food production
Be audit ready. This is an everyday endeavour. Use visual management boards to set and meet audit ready standards. Make your team aware of what they need to do. Monitor progress. Likewise, track results. Above all, continually build on your success.
Quality Control – visual management for food production
In short, create your own quality station. Show your quality standards in a way that’s instantly clear. Firstly, show what good looks like. Secondly, show defects to watch out for. Make your own visuals for your own processes. Above all, set and meet your quality standards. Furthermore, put in place a site wide strategy and achieve quality every step of the way.
Show quality standards visually and clearly
Add status indicator meters for a visual snapshot
Meeting targets – visual management for food production
Use Key Performance Indicator boards to track performance. In other words, use these KPI boards to provide the status for each target. Most importantly, they give clear visual cues. Above all, they prompt action for meeting targets. KPI boards are an essential visual management tool for any progressive or lean environment.
Efficient Working – visual management for food production
Use production, planning and tracking boards to monitor performance. Firstly, share your targets. Secondly, log any variances. Likewise, show when to take action. Finally, assign responsibility. Above all, make your action plan work for your operational workflow. Most importantly, bring it to life in a visual way.
Track your daily metrics visually
Track your daily metrics visually
Daily management processes – visual management for food production
SQDC is one example of a daily management process. It continuously tracks Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost. Make your own SQDC board to visually assess how well these processes are operating. Above all, provide your team with an instant visual assessment. Make your operations flow as smoothly and safely as possible.
Problem Solving – visual management for food production
Put in place a Problem Follow Up board to manage concerns. The PFU Board is more than just a visual display. Certainly, it stands out and grabs attention. However, it also facilitates a Problem Follow Up system. In other words, write up the problem, log the cause and share the countermeasure. Likewise, assign responsibility for resolving problems. If it helps further, then add a problem follow up ticket system. In addition, consider a Practical Problem Solving board.
Problem solving for food production
Show your changing procedures visually
Communicate procedures – visual management for food production
Most importantly, make all communications clear in an instant. Use pictures for quick reference. Add headings. In some cases, however, explaining procedures in one language is not enough. Therefore, why not put in place multilingual communications? A good example of this in action is the PPE check station. Likewise, create hand sanitisation stations. In addition, communicate hand wash procedures in a highly visual way.
Continuous Improvement
Show your targets and benchmark results. Then upgrade your targets because this is how progress happens. Make targets and results instantly visible. Achieve new standards because you continually monitor progress, track results and update targets. Most importantly, this is the cycle of Continuous Improvement in action. Use status dials to do this in a very visual way.
Drive Continuous Improvement with visual management
Manage Allergen control with line status dial
Manage segregation – visual management for food production
Safely manage segregation. Firstly, for allergen control. Secondly, for general product segregation. Finally, to organise your warehouse or workplace. There are a number of visual management tools to help. Make your own visual management boards to show how segregation works. Likewise, you can even choose full scale wall visuals to segregate your factory. Take further action still, and separate areas using floor markings. Above all, deliver your segregation targets in highly visual way. Make them instantly clear.
Organise your workplace – visual management for food production
Use the 5S system to organise your workplace environment. In short, in a visual way. Firstly, Sort all equipment. Secondly, Set in Order. Next, maintain your equipment in the Shine phase. Furthermore, create good habits with Standardise. Finally, ensure longevity in best practice with Sustain. In addition, add custom status indicators to mark progress in real time. Likewise, choose dry wipe option. Lastly, include document holders to display procedures.
Show your housekeeping strategy with a 5S board
Manage your team
Manage your team – visual management for food production
Manage shift patterns. Set up a team holiday planner. Show who the senior leadership is. Establish a wall of fame and celebrate staff successes. Share staff notices and build a community within your team. Custom make your own noticeboards and other visual displays for your team.
Bring site strategies to life
Don’t just tell visitors and staff your carbon zero strategy, for example. Show them. make your own sustainability board. Furnish it with facts, images and statistics. Above all, show how your site is making progress. For example, show the status of each of your targets. Make those targets easy to update.
Track net zero goals with a sustainability board
Track net zero goals with a sustainability board
Make your setting vibrant and welcoming
Make your site welcoming. Furthermore, set out your mission statement. In other words, state why your organisation exists and what it achieves. Above all, do it in style. That is to say, turn your walls into vibrant statements about what you do with our custom wall visuals. Likewise, why you do it. Make a big bold statement. Shout about your successes in a visual way. Likewise, celebrate and praise your team.
Examples of our Food Production Boards
Huddle board
KPI daily meeting board
Quality SIC board
PIT Test board
Crisp defects
Daily Production board
KPI daily meeting board
Escalation tree board
Show what good looks like
Quality visual standards board
Quality standards
Supplier board
Fishbone problem solving
Replacement magnetic overlays
Quality standards reporting
Processes for Continuous Improvement
Changing procedures board
Use colour in your 5S design
Equipment Status Board
DMAIC for Continuous Improvement
A3 Problem Solving
Visual decision tree board
Cleaning Station
Visual decision tree board
Accident reporting board
Magnetic headings
Visual defects board
Magnetic segregation signs
Visual Allergen control
Allergen control colour coding
Line Status board
Add document holders to your 5S board
Colour code your PFU tickets
Dry wipe status document holders
PFU board with magnetic tickets
Daily Meeting Performance board
Add magnetic status labels
Include status sliders to track KPIs
Handover board
Production KPIs with status indicators
Track your logistics KPIs
Make your KPI board multilingual
Escalation station
Use Green Amber Red on your board
Defect Chart
Decision Tree for food production
What good looks like
Create a check station Temple
Visual management for quality standards
Lab quality document holders
Show, at a glance, defects to avoid
Show your sustainability strategy
Add document holders
Sustainability visual management board
Magnetic accessories for updates
Customised magnetic overlay
Operations board
White postbox for feedback
Teams Shift Board
Safety board for your team
Look after your staff
5M fishbone diagram
Engage with your own Visual Management Performance Hub
Above all, make optimum performance a habit. Therefore, set and assess daily targets, at a glance. As a result, work with most relevant and up-to-date information. Furthermore, monitor and update performance metrics anytime. In short, make all aspects of performance visual, accessible and engaging. Likewise, for all the team. In addition, utilise every every side of your hub with different visuals.
Track net zero goals with a sustainability board
A selection of our Food Production clients
Visual management for food production – we support you
Most importantly, we have years of experience of delivering specialist visuals specifically for those working in food manufacturing. Therefore, we make the perfect partner for anyone implementing visual management for food production settings.
We support you to make the perfect board for your workplace. Likewise, choose exactly what you want need. Most importantly, your board (or visual) works for you.
