Visual Management Boards
We were one of the first UK specialists in visual management, and we still design and manufacture shadow boards, performance boards and 5S signage for factories nationwide.
Trusted by, among others
- Arriva
- Stagecoach
- Durham County Council
- Caledonian Travel
[Placeholder copy] Visual management turns a factory's standards into something you can see from ten paces: whether the tools are back, whether the shift hit its numbers, whether the walkway is where the walkway should be. We have been manufacturing visual management products since the discipline first took hold in UK industry, and this part of the business ships nationally every week.
[Placeholder copy] The range covers tool shadow boards, cleaning stations, SQCDP and KPI boards, T-card systems, floor marking, andon and workstation signage, all manufactured to your processes rather than from a catalogue. Boards are designed around the actual tools, the actual metrics and the actual audit standard your site works to.
[Placeholder copy] Lean programmes live and die on whether the visual standard survives contact with the nightshift. Materials matter: we use tough substrates, printed and laminated surfaces that survive workshop cleaning chemicals, and fixings that suit mesh guarding, block walls or mobile stands.
[Placeholder copy] Send us photographs of the cell, the tool list or the board you have been asked to replicate across sites, and we will come back with a drawing and a price. We work with continuous improvement teams directly and are comfortable being handed a marker-pen sketch.
The problems we solve
Your team loses time looking for things
[Placeholder] A shadow board makes a missing tool visible from across the cell, so the search happens at handover rather than mid-job.
The standard does not survive the nightshift
[Placeholder] Catalogue boards become shelf storage within a month. We design from your actual tool list and photographs of the real cell.
Every site does it differently
[Placeholder] We hold your board specification centrally, so a second or fifth site orders the identical board and changes are versioned, not improvised.
How we do it
We come and look
[Placeholder] A survey, or a photograph and a registration, depending on the job. We measure the actual vehicle or building rather than working from assumptions.
You approve a proof
[Placeholder] Artwork laid out on your real vehicle template or building elevation, so you see the finished thing before anything is printed.
We make it here
[Placeholder] Printed, laminated and fabricated in our own Spennymoor workshop, on trade-grade materials specified for where the job will live.
Our own team fits it
[Placeholder] Fitted by the people who made it, in our indoor bays or on your site, with the access equipment and paperwork the job needs.
Who we have done it for
- Transport engineering
Stagecoach
[Placeholder copy, to be approved by client before publication] An engineering depot needed its maintenance areas brought up to a consistent visual standard: tool control at every bay, performance boards the whole shift could read, and signage that survived a working workshop.
Read the Stagecoach case study
What our customers say
[Placeholder testimonial, replace before launch] They walked the factory with us, told us what we did not need, and the boards have survived two years of nightshift cleaning.
Common questions
Do you only serve the North East?
[Placeholder] No. Visual management is a national service. Boards are manufactured in Spennymoor and shipped or installed at sites across the UK.
Can you replicate a board standard across multiple sites?
[Placeholder] Yes. We hold your artwork and specification centrally so every site orders the same board, and changes are versioned rather than drifting site by site.
Do you design shadow boards from a tool list?
[Placeholder] Yes. Send the tools or photographs of them and we produce a scaled layout for approval before manufacture, including labelled shadows and cleaning-friendly surfaces.
Talk to us about visual management boards
Send the vehicle details, a photograph of the building, or just the rough idea. We will come back with straight answers on cost and lead time.
We reply within one working day.