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Efficient teamwork and true Operational Excellence with Obeya in Visual Shop Floor
Conduct daily shop floor meetings in a structured way, strengthen team collaboration, make well-founded decisions, and sustainably anchor continuous improvements – these are proven principles that Visual Shop Floor has always supported. With the new Obeya module (Japanese for “big room”), we expand these possibilities, creating even more flexibility and simplicity in optimizing production and logistics processes.
The Obeya feature in Visual Shop Floor takes teamwork to a new level: in a digital space precisely tailored to the team’s needs, all relevant information is always up-to-date and can be continuously accessed, adapted, and further developed by team members. Additionally, Obeya offers powerful tools for tracking actions, documenting events, LPA, PDCA cycles, and much more. All information and resulting activities are centrally bundled, remaining transparent and traceable at all times.
Regular communication is also optimally supported by the integrated meeting function: meetings can be conducted flexibly yet structured, making collaboration clearer and significantly increasing team efficiency.
Whether as a communication hub for daily exchanges or as a flexible environment for project- and occasion-based coordination, Obeya provides every team with the perfect digital workspace. All functions for planning, coordination, and continuous improvement are centrally consolidated – the ideal foundation for smart, efficient, and transparent teamwork.
The core elements of Obeya:
Obeya Hub
The Obeya Hub provides a central, structured overview of all your Obeyas — organized thematically based on predefined templates. For each topic area, tailored rooms can be created to meet the specific needs of your teams or departments. This ensures you always have a clear overview and can access the relevant workspace with just a few clicks.
Dashboards
Dashboards can be directly embedded in the Obeya template and flexibly parametrized. Each Obeya room receives exactly the KPIs and information relevant to the respective team. This ensures transparency, comparability, and targeted control — all without extra effort.
Collaboration Workspace
The Collaboration Workspace makes the Obeya room the central place for daily teamwork. Actions, notes, events, documents, audits, and PDCAs are permanently available, up to date, well structured, and easy to find and trace. This ensures that no information is lost and teams always have a complete overview of all activities.
Meeting
Meetings can be held directly within the Obeya room – with a predefined and easily extendable agenda and simple participant tracking. All available information in the Obeya serves as the basis for discussion and decision-making. Topics discussed are documented directly in the Collaboration Workspace. Meeting duration, topics covered, and participants are automatically recorded and permanently stored – making it easy to pick up right where you left off in the next session.
What makes Obeya in Visual Shop Floor stand out:
All-in-one workspace:
All relevant information such as actions, KPIs, events, audits, PDCA cycles, documents, and notes are centrally bundled in one place – exactly where collaboration happens.
All relevant information such as actions, KPIs, events, audits, PDCA cycles, documents, and notes are centrally bundled in one place – exactly where collaboration happens.
Team-focused & customizable:
Each Obeya room is flexibly designed and tailored to departments, levels, or topics. This way, every team gets exactly the information it needs – clearly organized and always up to date.
Each Obeya room is flexibly designed and tailored to departments, levels, or topics. This way, every team gets exactly the information it needs – clearly organized and always up to date.
Efficient meetings:
Agenda, participants, and content – everything is prepared and structured. Results and decisions are automatically documented and can be seamlessly used again in the next meeting.
Agenda, participants, and content – everything is prepared and structured. Results and decisions are automatically documented and can be seamlessly used again in the next meeting.
Spot deviations – trigger actions:
Obeya links KPIs with events and actions. Teams detect deviations early, initiate corrections, and manage implementation directly via the Kanban board.
Obeya links KPIs with events and actions. Teams detect deviations early, initiate corrections, and manage implementation directly via the Kanban board.
Lean Thinking:
Tools such as audits, PDCA cycles, and root cause analyses are integrated directly into the room. This turns continuous improvement into everyday practice – embedded in daily communication and beyond.
Tools such as audits, PDCA cycles, and root cause analyses are integrated directly into the room. This turns continuous improvement into everyday practice – embedded in daily communication and beyond.
Versatile use cases:
Obeyas can be used for a wide range of purposes – from daily shop floor meetings, shift handovers, and management reviews to KVP meetings, audit meetings, event management, and much more.
Obeyas can be used for a wide range of purposes – from daily shop floor meetings, shift handovers, and management reviews to KVP meetings, audit meetings, event management, and much more.
More features
Upgrade: Icon KPI indicator widget now also available for model data
The icon KPI indicator widget has proven to be a highly effective tool for presenting information in a simple and intuitive way across a wide range of use cases, making it one of the most popular visualization elements in Visual Shop Floor. Whenever KPIs need to be displayed clearly, compactly, and in a visually appealing format – whether it's absenteeism rates, scrap rates, OEE including influencing factors, or other key metrics – the widget is the perfect solution.
With options to display a title, a key figure, and a relevant icon, along with dynamic background coloring, the widget offers maximum flexibility for quick insights at a glance.
With the latest update, the icon KPI indicator widget can now also be used in combination with model data. This means KPIs can be retrieved directly from a data model and updated automatically – always up to date, with no manual effort required.
A flexible tool that helps keep critical information in view at all times – simple, intuitive, and always at the right moment.
More flexibility with the enhanced video widget
