TY - CONF TI - Why Visual Management? C1 - Chennai, India C3 - 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 250 EP - 260 PY - 2018 DO - 10.24928/2018/0527 AU - Koskela, Lauri AU - Tezel, Algan AU - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia AD - Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, l.koskela@hud.ac.uk AD - Lecturer, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, a.tezel@hud.ac AD - Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, p.tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk AB - From early on, visual management (VM) has been an intrinsic ingredient of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and its derivatives like lean production. Akin to the evolution of most other parts of the TPS, it has been developed through practitioner efforts rather than being propelled by theoretical insights. Recently, scholars have started to create a theoretical knowledge base for VM. Besides taxonomies of visual devices and their functions, there is only one fully fledged theory of VM, based on the concept of affordance. It is contended here that the scholarly field of visual management has been too narrowly defined. In fact, research on (or bearing on) visual devices has been carried out in several other, mostly small fields, often with little mutual awareness. A review on the theoretical explanation of VM is provided, based on this wider literature. The concept of affordance has been used in this context already in early 1990s. This focuses attention especially to the human cognitive capabilities and corresponding features of visual devices. Generally, VM is argued to provide a more rapid and reliable mode of communication in comparison to traditional alternatives. VM is thus compatible with the lean tenets of time compression and variability reduction. This explains its central role in lean production. KW - Visual management KW - lean production KW - cognition PB - T2 - 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2018/07/18 CY - Chennai, India L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1548/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1548 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -