Maintenance - Introduction to Lean Visual ... - Highways Agency

About this Guidance NoteThis guidance note is intended to provide an introduction to the concepts behindLean Visual Management, a technique based on lean methodologies.It is aimed at members of the highways industry that already have a basicunderstanding of lean principles and wish to implement the use of the Lean VisualManagement within their own organisations.Lean Visual Management complements other lean techniques including theCollaborative Planning System (see Enhancing Lean Visual Management onpage 25 of this guidance note). More information on the Collaborative PlanningSystem can be found on PartnerNET in ‘An Introduction to the CollaborativePlanning System’.Navigating this Guidance NoteThis guidance note uses colour coded page markers to easily distinguish betweenthe different sections of the document. These correspond to Figure 1 on page 4 ofthis document and can be found in the top right hand corner of each page.Stand-up MeetingsLean Visual ManagementVisual DisplaysPerformance ImprovementPage 1Any printed copy of this document is considered uncontrolled. Controlled documents are maintainedelectronically and can be found on the Highways Agency’s PartnerNET at www.ha-partnernet.org.uk