Visual management, andon and daily production meetings
Keep an hour-by-hour production board that shows plan against actual and records specific reasons, signal and respond to problems with andon, run short start-of-shift meetings that end in owned actions, and read status boards and visual controls at a glance. Colors, response targets and escalation rules are each site's own.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Complete an hour-by-hour board with plan, actual, cumulative figures and a specific reason for each gap
- Calculate the cumulative gap to plan from a board and say when to escalate it
- Explain what andon is for, how a call differs from an emergency stop, and what a good response looks like
- Run or take part in a short start-of-shift meeting that ends with actions that have an owner and a date
- Recognize visual controls and read a status display using the site's own legend
Course outline
- 1.Visual management, andon and daily meetingsVideo · 2 min
- 2.Seeing the state of the line at a glanceLesson · 17 min
- 3.Andon: calling for help and respondingLesson · 17 min
- 4.Short daily meetings and visual controlsLesson · 16 min
- 5.Visual management, andon and daily production meetings: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 20 questions
- 6.Visual management, andon and daily production meetings: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Lean Enterprise Institute lexicon: Visual management
- Lean Enterprise Institute lexicon: Production analysis board
- Lean Enterprise Institute lexicon: Andon
- Lean Enterprise Institute lexicon: Jidoka
- Your site's quality manual, control plans, drawings, work instructions and procedures (these govern)
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