Visual management
Visual management boards
Custom-printed visual management boards for daily performance meetings, KPI tracking and problem solving. Bring targets, actual results and actions together in a fixed layout designed around your team's routine.
What it is
About visual management
A visual management board gives a team one visible place to review performance, record problems and agree the next action. Permanent printed grids, headings and colour blocks organise the information; changing results, notes and status indicators are added with dry-wipe markers or magnetic accessories. Use it at a production line for a shift handover, at a tiered daily meeting to compare KPIs with targets, or in a quality area to work through root causes. Locus designs the layout from your existing template or works with you to create one, and makes the boards in Ipswich, UK.
Who it suits
- Production and continuous improvement teams in automotive and general manufacturing
- Aerospace, defence and medical-device quality teams tracking audits and actions
- Warehouse and logistics teams managing shift handovers and daily performance
- Quality and EHS leads recording incidents, near misses and countermeasures
- Operational excellence teams standardising tiered meetings across departments
Configuration
Options and materials
Every board is specified from these options. If you need something not listed, ask.
Configuration options
- Layout
- Your existing meeting template or a bespoke layout developed with you: KPI panels, SQCDP columns, hourly grids, action logs and document spaces
- Standard designs
- SQCDP, 5 Whys and fishbone, short interval control and magnetic site map layouts, personalised with your logo and heading
- Size
- From A1 to full-wall multi-panel installations
- Surface
- Dry-wipe or magnetic dry-wipe for changing information; glass is also available. Non-magnetic ACM suits permanent information displays
- Accessories
- Magnetic A4/A3 document holders, RAG status sliders, dry-wipe marker strips, pen trays and acrylic dispensers
- Mounting
- Wall, mobile easel or double-sided trolley
Materials
- Magnetic composite
- Rigid steel-faced composite — takes dry-wipe markers and magnetic accessories
- Aluminium composite
- Rigid, non-magnetic, lightweight and flat — for permanent information boards
- Flexible magnetic vinyl
- Applies tool-free to machine casings, racking uprights and steel partitions
- Grids and headers printed beneath an industrial dry-wipe laminate, so markers and cleaners never touch the ink
Applications
Typical applications
01
SQCDP and KPI boards — review Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and People with letter calendars and an action log
02
Short interval control (SIC) — compare hourly plan with actual output, record downtime reasons and identify escalations
03
5 Whys and fishbone boards — work through root causes using an Ishikawa diagram, 5 Whys ladder and countermeasure log
04
Tier 1, 2 and 3 meetings and shift handovers — use consistent headings for daily performance and outstanding actions
05
5S audits and skills matrices — display audit information, training records and team capability
06
Safety crosses — record accidents and near misses each day on a monthly grid with a notes panel
07
Magnetic site maps — display your supplied site plan with markers for zones, fire wardens, first aiders and contractors
08
Permit-to-work and lockout-tagout (LOTO) stations — organise permits and reference information at a defined point
Build your site standard
Configure your own SQCDP board
Choose categories, size, build, mounting, header colour and accessories, see it drawn on screen, then send it to us for a scaled design proof.
See standard whiteboard layoutsExamples
Visual management we have made
Short interval control board, Accrol Group 
Mobile hourly performance station
Need visual management? Send us a photo of the area.
Also see: Tool shadow boards and Cleaning stations
Plan this board yourself.
Pick your tools, choose colours and fixing, and see an indicative board-only price as you go. Save it and we'll review it before sending your official quote.
See the quality before you commit.
A scaled-down shadow board with direct print, a UV-cured coating and hooks. No laminate. Dispatched within 2 working days.
Enquire
Tell us what's driving you mad. We'll start there.
Tell us what you need and where it will go. We reply within 2 working hours (Mon–Fri, 7am–4pm).
- — Photos of the area help us quote faster
- — No obligation, no sales calls unless you ask
- — Design proof before anything is made