VISUAL MANAGEMENT
Shadow Boards
A Place for Everything and Everything in it’s Place.
VMT Shadow Boards help enable missing tools and equipment to be spotted in seconds, and are an essential Visual Management Tool providing effective workplace organisation and control.
Shadow Boards are proven to reduce time taken searching for missing tools resulting in a positive impact on Takt, cycle and processing times.
Our 5S Shadow Boards will help your teams and business to:
A SHADOW BOARD FOR EVERY PURPOSE
Hand Tooling
Proven to save time searching for tools, hand tool Shadow Boards make it easy to identify missing items from a distance, a fundamental lean visual management technique.
VMT Shadow Boards can be supplied on mobile frames ensuring right tool, right place, right time.
A SHADOW BOARD FOR EVERY PURPOSE
Change Over /
Spare Parts
Keep operationally critical spare parts visually stored close to process, reducing potential downtime in the event of equipment failure.
Minimise wasted time in the SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) process by locating the changeover parts close to the process in an organised and logical layout ready for switch out
A SHADOW BOARD FOR EVERY PURPOSE
Lifting Tackle
LOLER regulations require lifting equipment to be appropriately stored, marked and inspected.
VMT Shadow Boards assist the user in locating the equipment in the correct place so the item is always available when not in use.
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Download our Shadowboard Brochure which is packed full of standard designs and the specification options available.
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How a Shadow Board
can help improve your business
We created a short video which demonstrates the significant time savings that can be achieved with Shadow Board implementation.
SPECIFICATION
Tailor Made for Your Needs
We take a flexible approach when discussing new projects and will work with you to meet your exact requirements and standards.
Made to Measure
We use a range of materials to form the base of our Shadow Boards. We can specify lighter materials for basic hand tooling through to aluminium sheet for heavy duty tooling.
Fixings + Attachments
We have built a wealth of experience in selecting the appropriate fixings to hold in place tools and parts of various size, shape and weight.
Hard Wearing
We can specify harder wearing materials such as aluminium with polycarbonate face protection for heavy duty applications.
Mounting Options
We can assist with specifying the perfect mounting solution for your Shadow Board to suit your operational requirements.
Framework + Cabinets
As with most of our products, we can adapt your Shadow Board to be freestanding and mobile. We can even build a cabinet around your Shadow Board to add extra security.
Design + Branding
Working within your corporate branding will
ensure that the boards fit in with the look, feel and
message the corporate brand projects.
ORDERING
Let us do the hard work for you
Many of our clients are busy operating within their own business that’s why we make the process of implementing Shadow Boards easy for our clients.
We approach the design development of your shadow board in a way that best suits you.
VMT On-Site
We will take the details
and measurements
we need on site with
minimal disruption to your
operations
Send Tools
If you are able to be
without equipment for a
day or two we will quickly
measure and then send
the tools back to you.
Send Tracings
We can supply detailed
instructions of how to send
us tracings of the tools.
New Tools
We can supply a complete
package of new tools
along with a bespoke
shadow board to match.