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Magnetic dry erase whiteboard systems for Lean Manufacturing
Use these flexible hands-on continuous improvement boards to solicit, post, track
and process improvement and corrective action ideas.
They welcome and harness the interest and energy of all your workers, the ones who really know what has to be done to improve their jobs. Position them where each person has the opportunity to add their suggestions when and where they feel comfortable. These boards will create a group dynamic that will tap one of the most neglected assets in most operations; the experienced knowledge and participating willingness of the people directly effected by improvement changes. We ship in 3 business days or less Our 42nd year.
Continuous-Improvement Problem-Solver™
Post problems on this board so every team member can see them, think about them and contribute to the solution.
You'll find that problem-solution insights will often come from workers who think "outside the box", or have knowledge of the problem or a solution they haven't ventured to tell anyone. The system includes magnetic stars and symbols to facilitate management feedback. Harness your team members' hearts and minds with this powerful tool. They know more about the problems and have more answers than you think! A little encouragement and recognition is all it takes.
2 Sizes: 1 to 4 problem posting areas.
(If you would like to talk to one of our experienced design specialists to help you select the right kit or item for your application, please call our design desk at 800 624 4154, M-F. 8-6, E. Time. No charge or obligation.)
Problem-Tracker™ Corrective Action Continuous Improvement Board
Keeps each problem in view as it progresses to resolution
Optional visible file folder rack holds backup paperwork .Unresolved problems have a way of ducking out if sight and out of mind when newer more pressing problems grab attention. This Problem-Tracker™ keeps them right in view where they will dealt with. Post up to 16 problems and corrective action assignments for defining, identifying potential and root causes, proposing action with implementation follow-through.
4x7-1/2', 16 Problem posting rows.
Successful Continuous Improvements
Formally post the successful accomplishments of each team's problem-solving efforts
It generates team pride and motivates continuing success.
Columns across read (L-R):
ISSUE, DATE, RESOLUTION
3'h x 4'w board with 20 rows
Positive-Ideas™ Continuous Improvement Board:
motivate employees by crediting and using their ideas.
Find and develop one of your hidden assets with this board system - Employee Creativeness, Experience and Brain Power! List the problems needing attention down the left side of the board and leave the sections blank for Possibilities and Solutions. Encourage anyone in the work center to offer their ideas for the problem's resolution. You'll be amazed at the knowledge and insight workers have to problem-solving if they are just encouraged to express it in a non-threatening way with an expectation of respect and recognition for their efforts. 3 board sizes.
Corrective Action-Tracker™ Continuous Improvement Board
Post problems so everyone can see and contribute to their solution.
Effective managers develop problem-solvers by interacting with team members on task assignments, giving feedback and encouragement. Deal directly and positively with problems as soon as they are recognized by assigning them to a responsible person or team for corrective action and posting them on this board where they cannot be hidden, forgotten or ignored. Put one in each team work center and most problems will be corrected before you have to get involved, and those who correct them will become recognized as problem-solvers with positive attitudes. It's also a focal point for discussion and communication whenever you are near the board. .
3 Sizes: 15 to 64 numbered problem posting rows.
Continuous Quality Improvement ChartView™ Boards
with Problem Isolation Analysis. Displays quality tracking and performance charts in magnetic ChartJackets®
Encourages total quality management team participation, documents problems, motivates employees to isolate and analyze them, take corrective action, improve and maintain quality! Post the board prominently at the work center to encourage team members to solve problems by writing corrective actions directly on the board. Includes our patented magnetic ChartJackets® to display your paper performance charts on the top half of the board. Post daily or ongoing problems for analysis on the lower portion.
3 Sizes - displays 3, 6 or 12 charts
3 problem analysis posting rows.
Change Suggestions Board
Post continuous improvement change suggestions while they are fresh, so everyone can view, contribute and keep up-to-date with the idea flow and progress
Includes write-on tools, chart supplies and magnet signals.
Columns across read (L-R):
NAME, SUGGESTION, STATUS, NOTES.
3'h x 4'w with 25 rows
Total Quality Management Discrepancy-Tracker™
Keeps Material Vendor Performance Information in view 24/7 for action & followup
Often, discrepancy issues become chronic before they get attention if they are kept out of sight and therefore out of mind. If accuracy and performance accountability are important for evaluating your vendors, departments or specific operations, this board puts them right up front for tracking and action.
It allows for 3 correction steps with status dates.
2 Sizes3x4' (20 line items) 4x4' (30 line items)
Agenda-Issue Meeting-Boards™
Post meeting agenda issues on this 4x6' Meeting-Board™ where it can be viewed by all the attendees before and during the meeting, it will visually rivet their attention on each issue and hold their concentration through the discussion. It lets each attendee participate in visibly posting the discussion notes while also prompting each to think about the upcoming items and their role in the discussion. In a nutshell, it add eyes as well as ears to the meeting communication job. 4x6' in open row or ShadeLine alternate shaded row format, If left up after the meeting, it becomes a great follow-up accountability tool.
Continuous Quality Improvement Performance-Tracker™
Displays quality goals and competitive performance for each work center for the month, quarter and YTD
Failure to meet customer expectations for value, delivery, service and quality anywhere along the line can become deadly to your market share and bottom line. Although quality production is expected every day and hour, in reality it's often dealt with on a reactive basis. This board puts it right target with the workers and teams displaying their performance against goals in a competitive manner. It's your quality game scoreboard with all the incentive to perform that any game scoreboard delivers. 3 Sizes: 6, 14 or 28 teams,
Incident Investigation Tracker™ magnetic dry erase whiteboard
Keeps workplace accident incidents in view, in mind and under control until the workplace safety issues are resolved.
Workplace safety incidents get attention when they are fresh but often move out of sight when the next incident comes along.
Columns across read (L-R): DATE, TIME, LOCATION, INCIDENT DESCRIPTION, CORRECTIVE ACTIONS, BY WHOM, WHEN
3'h x 4'w with 12 posting rows
Work Systems Compliance & Corrective Action:
Tracks compliance for 3 shifts x 7 days for up to 14 work stations, with room for follow-up non-compliance analysis and corrective action.
Size 3/h x 45/w
Corrective Action Continuous Improvement Fast-Trackers®
Display problem fixing status for all to see.
Here is a clear, effective system to track problem-solving activity to it's conclusion. It shows who is responsible for correcting each problem, what steps are being taken to solve it and displays a big color magnet for each problem to flag its status. You'll have no hidden unfixed problems when you display this board. (Includes lettering for your own board title)
3 sizes: for tracking 3, 6 or 9 problems.
Equipment Productivity Rate™
Spots equipment trouble early, in time to fix it or replace it!
Most equipment failures give warning signs before they become problems. Warnings are often subtle, easily rationalized, ignored, blamed on operators, treated as fixable with minor adjustments or quietly jerry-rigged to meet production scheduling demands. As production managers, you may not be fully aware of the problem's seriousness until one day you have a complete equipment failure in your lap!
This Scoreboard system spots and measures the early trouble signs long before they become a real problem. Includes magnet status signals in 10 colors. Just post the numbers and watch for changes in yield percentages.
2 Sizes:
Board hxw (rows): 2x3'(14), 4x3'(31)
ChartMaker® All-purpose kits
Create your own layout by taping vertical columns over the printed horizontal lines.
Tape vertical lines over the board's horizontal printed lines to create your own special dry-erase magnetic board layout with the columns exactly the number, size and position you want. Then create your title and column headings with the press-on lettering, animate it with the optional magnets and write on it with the dry-erase pens. The heat-fused printed lines are designed to last a lifetime. One of our most popular systems. 5 board sizes, hxw: 2x3', 3x4', 4x6', 4x8' and 4x10'
ShadeLine® ChartMaker® WhiteBoards
Create your own chart by taping vertical lines over the alternating shaded rows.
One of our most popular boards. These alternating bars give your white board that "information-age look", and are easier to read line-to-line. like computer-paper. The gentle gray shaded bars are heat-fused printed, smooth and flat, into the MagnaLux® porcelain-like steel non-glare whiteboard surface designed to stay clean and like-new for a lifetime of daily use. Not a laminate.
6 board sizes: hxw: 2'x3', 3'x4', 4'x6', 4'x8', 4'x10', 4'x12'
5 row spacings: 3/4"h, 1"h, 1-1/4"h, 1-1/2"h or 2"h
RotoCube® 19" Rotating Kiosk Bulletin Board Towers
No walls to display information? Try these unique patented rotating RotoCubes®.
They display information right where it will be seen and read - in lobbies, hallways, lunchrooms, waiting rooms, factory work stations, etc., wherever people work, pass by or congregate. They display an incredible 24 square feet of information, same as a 4x6 ft board in just a 19" square. (Choose from 24 different side panels, all 4 sides the same or mixed.) 78" high, it rotates quietly in a 27" circle in either direction with a finger touch. Fits in tight corners! One of our most popular visible communicators. Click the image to order your own special RotoCube®. Patented.
RotoCube® 34" Rotating Kiosk Bulletin Board Islands
A full wall (42 square feet) of plain or printed whiteboards, fabric or cork tack bulletin boards, calendars, photo and card displays
It turns with a finger touch in either direction in a 48" turning circle. Order it with 4 sides same or different. 19 side panel choices. Design it the way you want it and order it here online. Display information wherever people work, gather or pass-by. It accommodates several viewers at one time without crowding. Casters optional. Click the image to order your own special Island RotoCube®. Patented.
MasterPlanner® All-Purpose magnetic whiteboard Kits
Rectangle grids with magnets to fit.
Create your own magnetic schedule, planner or organizer with these kits. Select kits from 6 different grid sizes, each with magnets to fit the selected grid cell size plus a comprehensive selection of charting supplies.
5 board sizes:
(hxw): 2x3', 3x4', 4x6', 4x8' and 4x10'
6 Rectangle grid sizes (hxw):
1/2x2", 1x2", 1x3", 1-3/8x4", 2x5", and 1-3/8x8"
ActionPlanner® All-purpose magnetic White Board kits
A kit for you and your imagination! Background grid with magnets & chart supplies
Select a board kit with a 1/2" or 1" scale background square grid, or plain white, then create your own special magnetic system using the kit's comprehensive selection of magnets and charting materials.
6 board sizes (hxw):: 3x4', 4x6', 4x8', 4x10', 4x12'.
3 board styles: 1/2" grid, 1" grid, or plain white.
GiantYear™ 365-Day Magnetic Calendar Planner
See every color-coded plan, activity and time commitment for instant action and updating. It keeps your team looking at the full picture all year long.
The classic Blank calendar format we are all familiar with. Post it with dry-erase markers in 4 colors, or use the optional magnetic calendar cardholders in up to 50 color-combination codes and magnetic status signals in 10 colors. No matter how detailed or intense your schedule, you can instantly locate the item by its color codes. To make changes, just move the magnets. Porcelain-like heat-fused printed MagnaLux® steel working surface. Not a plastic or paper laminate! Built for a lifetime of daily use.
2 Sizes (hxw):
4x8' with 4x2-1/2" day space
4x12' with 4x3-3/8" day space
365-Day YearMaster® Dateline Blank Perpetual Planning Calendar
31 days across x 12 months down format.
Plan, organize, schedule, instantly update and view a grand panorama of your year's plans and activities displayed as a 31 day dateline, with room to post long range activities, day-by-day details and make instant changes by just moving color-coded magnets. Write on the board too. This is often used with our BigYear™ 52 week line-item schedule. YearMaster® comes in
2 size capacities (hxw):
4x6' for up to 6 items daily and
4x12' for up to 14 items daily.
Do-Done™ Magnetic StepTracker™
Turn the yellow magnet over to show green when a task is done. Red = trouble.
This is great for ongoing tasks or programs requiring step by step items to be completed. Save countless hours of phone calls, memos, report-reading and questions each year trying to get status reports, etc. It's efficient, handy, effective and one glance keeps everyone up-to-the-minute. You'll find your people gathering around this StepTracker™ to hold "board meetings" to review the situation. One of our most popular board systems.
5 Sizes
19, 35, 50, 100 or 150 line item rows
Fast & Accurate™ Magnetic ThermoCharts®
with unique numbered "mercury magnets"
Make dramatic, accurate, quick-change magnetic thermometer charts with these unique die-cut, scale-numbered Mercury-Magnets™ For really effective communication impact, a clearly focused and universally recognized visual thermometer image is all-powerful and guarantees the message will be quickly absorbed by all viewers. Includes press-on removable lettering. One of our most popular systems. ©1997
5 sizes hxw:
3x1' with 1 thermometer
3x2' with 1 thermometer
3x2' with 2 thermometers
3x4' with 3 thermometers
3x4' with 4 thermometers
T-Card Files
Combines the visibility of a magnetic board with the in-depth data and hands-on access of a card file
Ideal for visibly displaying detailed task cards, lists, project details etc. Shipped assembled and ready for use with cards and accessories. Uses T-Cards 5"h x 3-5/8"h that can be displayed with 1" or 1/2" visible top edges in 58 slot panels.
7 file sizes (35-1/4"h) x 4" to 77" w holding from 58 to 1160 T-Cards. Larger capacities to order.
Also available on a Roll-Around™ Stand, Rotating Kiosk or hinged swing-panels.
Month-to-Month™ Modular Track Magnetic Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendar
with Individual One-Month Sections.
Mount this Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendar on one or more walls and expand it to any length. Each section is a separate one-month planning calendar framed heat-fused printed porcelain-like steel whiteboard. At month-end, just interchange the sections for a continuous left-to-right reading calendar. Individual months lift out of the satin-aluminum wall tracks so you can work on them at your desk and reinsert them when done or hang them separately with their concealed wall hangers. Comes ready to use with boards, tracks, write-on tools, chart supplies and optional magnets.
10 models: 2, 3, 4 or 12 months x 3 Heights: 2', 3' or 4' high.
GiantMonth™ 31 day Magnetic Action Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendars
with room to post a good day's activities.
These Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendars are ideal if you have a lot to plan, schedule and say each day, want to read it across the room or use your monthly calendar as a daily bulletin board. It show everyone on your team exactly what is happing each day of the month.
3 sizes, hxw:
3x4' with day space 6 x 6-1/2"
4x6' with day space 8-1/2 x 10"
4x8' with day space 8-1/2 x 13"
GiantWeek™ Action Magnetic Calendars
displaying 3 shift areas, with room to post all the details for each day's plans.
Reduce your management talking, walking and meeting time saving hundreds of hours each year by posting goals, detailed marching orders, expectations, news, changes, updates, events, tasks and results on one of the GiantWeek™ 5 or 7 day magnetic, dry-erase printed white boards so everyone can see and read it 24-7.
4 sizes: 2x3, 3x4, 4x6, 4x8'
2 styles: 5 days M-F, 7 days S-S
GhostGrid™ White Background Grid WhiteBoards
Like working on graph paper, it makes alignment easy!
The white grid is visible up close, but "disappears" when you stand back a little. It's white on white heat-fused printed into a MagnaLux® porcelain-like steel whiteboard working surface designed for a lifetime of daily use. Not a laminate! "Once you use a Magnatag® GhostGrid™ you'll never want to use plain whiteboard again", one client told us.
8 board sizes, hxw: 2'x3', 3'x4', 4'x4', 4'x6', 4'x8', 4'x10', 4'x12'
3 square grid scales: 1/4", 1/2", 1"
Isometric Grid
Quickly and accurately draw your conceptual diagrams in 3 dimensions on this grid,
Workers absolutely love this board. Put it where they can work up their ideas and 3-D drawings on the isometric Ghost background grid. Quickly and accurately draw conceptual diagrams in 3 dimensions on this grid, then animate it for display with colorful magnets and line tapes. You can't imaging the creativity it will unleash in your workers. The soft gray grid is permanently heat-fused printed into the MagnaLux® porcelain-like white steel surface for a lifetime of daily use staying clean and like new. Not a plastic laminate.
4'h x 6'w, 1/2" scale.
Magnetic ChartView® Boards
Quickly display and change paper charts, without touching the charts themselves.
Use them to keep, display and transport paper charts clean and fresh with no dog-ears, creases or wrinkles! Eliminates messy tapes and sharp tacks! Kits also include write-on tools and charting supplies.
Kits for 3 chart sizes
9"x12", 12"x18" and 18"x24".
9 Board sizes to display up to 9 charts.
Magnetic ChartJackets® included. Patented.
TackFree® Bulletin Boards
Perfect document alignment with patented transparent Grip-a-Sheet® document holders
Quickly and neatly post paper documents and notices with these patented transparent Grip-A-Sheet® document holder bars mounted on a handsome FabricTack® bulletin boards. Documents slide-up, grip tight and release with a firm tug. You can view notices with no hidden copy or distortion. The handsome radius board style is available in 6 designer fabric colors.
10 Sizes, hxw: 18"x36", 18"x48", 18"x72", 30"x24",
30"x36", 30"x48", 30"x72", 4'x3', 4'x4' and 4'x6'
Special sizes to order. Patented.
Grip-A-Sheet® transparent sheet display bars
Use them on walls, doors, cabinets, any flat surface.
Transparent slide-up document holder bars display the entire sheet without distortion. Use them on walls, doors, cabinets, any flat surface.
6 sizes: 9", 19", 22", 34", 46" and 70" long.
Screw-mount or magnetic-backed for steel surfaces
Patented
MagnaSnap® Paper Clamps
adhesive-backed clamps grip up to 10 sheets of paper between two tension-hinged magnets
Use MagnaSnaps® wherever you post notes, papers and reminders. The foam-adhesive back adheres to walls, doors, cabinets, windows, shelf-edges, lockers, plastic, glass, metal, wood or any smooth clean surface, indoors or out. 2 Sizes::Note size and sheet size. 11 colors. Write-on surface. Patented
WakTack® Super Strong Rare Earth Magnets
Tack 10 sheets of paper and hold up to 6 oz. of keys on steel surfaces. Many uses.
Made of nickel-plated neodymium rare-earth magnet, permanently embedded in our unique patented multi-purpose non-breakable holder. They're easy to grip, turn, hang things over, label and thread things through it, They cling very tight to any steel surface (except some grades of stainless), They come with PC programmable labels and keying template for preparing the labels that fit into the recessed top for numbering, lettering or dedicating the magnet.
10 bright colors. 5/8"x5/8"x3/4"h, .
Non-breakable unique EZ-Grip™ design. Patented
One of our most popular magnet products:
You'll love them!" Ships immediately from stock.
Transparent Magnetic Display ChartJackets®
Transport, display and change paper charts without touching them! Patented.
ChartJackets® hold letter, ledger, tabloid and poster sized charts. Eliminates messy unreliable tapes and tacks and keeps charts from getting dog-eared, wrinkled, creased, droopy and soiled. Magnet-backed models cling to steel white boards or any steel surface to keep charts sharp, neat and professional!.
4 ChartJacket® sizes hold paper charts
9"x12", 12"x18", 18"x24" and 24"x36"
Patented
SafetyCross® Workplace Safety Interactive Motivational Sign
Pride in workplace safety "Comes Alive" when workers build and take ownership of a solid Green Magnetic SafetyCross®.
Fill in your workplace safety signs each week with the green, red or yellow magnet to show accident-free, lost time or medical incident. Just one red or yellow "accident" magnet can spoil the solid-green accident-free SafetyCross®, but it's an incentive to improve the next one. Everyone is involved in workplace safety every day and everyone wins! One of our most popular board systems. Thousands in use. Design ©1988
4 Formats: 31 days, 52 wks., 12 mos. or 366 days
2 Sizes: read from 10 ft. or 50 ft.
English and en Español
365-Day Attendance Tracking and Vacation Monitor™
Motivate attendance, spot absentee patterns, plan vacations, training, duty & travel assignments.
View a full 365 day year, graphically displaying each employee's attendance tracking, time schedule and performance. Spot absentee patterns and also use it to plan training, time-off, vacations, assignments, reviews, etc. It cuts aggravation when employees can see open time available before requesting vacations. The magnet colors code and quickly identify planned activities, track daily job actions and attendance.
3 Sizes hxw:
2x3' for 19 names
4x3' for 42 names
4x6' for 86 names
Plain Whiteboards
with a porcelain-like steel dry-erase whiteboard surface
The porcelain-like steel heat-fused, steel non-glare whiteboard working surface is designed for a lifetime of daily use, staying clean and like new when used as directed. Kits include write-on tools, board maintenance supplies and optional magnets. Not a plastic film laminate. It will not bubble, crack, peel, fade, chip, warp or build up indelible marker ink stains!
12 sizes, hxw: 18x24" 24x18" 2x3' 3x2' 3x4', 4x3' 4x4' 4x5' 4x6' 4x8' 4x10' 4x12' 4x16', Special sizes to order.
Custom White Boards and MagnaMaps®
Your own special magnetic dry-erase whiteboard full color or black and white design heat-fused printed specially for you.
The MagnaLux® porcelain-like steel with our special FusoGraphic™ heat-fused printed working surface is designed for a lifetime of daily use, staying clean and like new. (NOT a film, plastic or laminated surface and no decals or taped lines. Plastics surfaces do not last with daily use). It's easy to order. Also custom maps and huge map library. Ships in 3 business days or less after proof OK. Thousands in use worldwide. Includes write-on tools and board maintenance supplies.
Any size up to 4' x 16' in single framed boards. larger sizes available in sections and also available combined with other display options.
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