We understand the daily challenges facing food manufacturers.
Above all, we make you your own visual management tools to meet those challenges.

Read on for examples of successful visual management for food production settings…

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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.

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Health and Safety boards for food production environments
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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.

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Show quality standards visually and clearly
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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.

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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.

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Track your daily metrics visually
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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.

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Problem solving for food production
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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.

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Drive Continuous Improvement with visual management
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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.

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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.

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Show your housekeeping strategy with a 5S board
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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.

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Track net zero goals with a sustainability board
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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

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.

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Track net zero goals with a sustainability board

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.

A selection of our Food Production clients

Options and accessories

Further board options

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Further board accessories

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  • Communications doc holder
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