Boards: everyone sees the same status

It depends on what you put on it. To write with markers and use magnets, symbols and windows for sheets, you need a metal whiteboard, such as the Cardplan® whiteboard. For kanban cards, orders and job cards read from the edge, you need the Cardplan® insertion board, with overlapping pockets. They are often used side by side, because they have the same widths.

Wall-mounted if the board always stays in the same place and there is a free wall near the department. The board stand is the right choice if meetings are held in different places, if you cannot drill the walls or if you want to use both sides: for example KPIs on the front and actions on the back. It is 1800 mm high, from 1290 to 2040 mm wide, and holds boards from 440 to 1244 mm high.

Yes, on any steel surface: machine sides, cabinets, shelves. Labels, strips, magnetic sheets, symbols, smileys and Magnetic Windows® stick directly. On wood, plastic or walls, first create a base with the self-adhesive magnetic tape.

On a large whiteboard, draw the process steps, inventories and timeline in marker; the data for each step goes on writable magnetic labels. Use arrows to connect material and information flows, and clouds to mark waste and bottlenecks. During the workshop you move the magnets without redrawing the map.

Divide the board into four columns, Plan, Do, Check and Act. In Plan write the problem, target and causes, in Do place a symbol for each action with owner and deadline, in Check mark the result with a smiley, in Act close the action or start a new cycle. Double-sided symbols show at once what is open and what is closed.

A board with one row for each KPI, such as safety, quality, delivery and productivity, status smileys for the day’s assessment and Magnetic Windows® for charts and forms. Next to it, a space for actions and owners, written on magnetic labels. If the meeting is held standing on the shop floor, the mobile stand takes the board where it is needed.

It depends on how many statuses you need and whether you want to write on them. Magnetic symbols, arrows, circles and clouds in up to 5 colors, can be written on: they are suited to VSM and action plans. Double-sided symbols are red on one side and green on the other and can be flipped. Smileys give three statuses: green, yellow and red. You can use them together on the same board.

With water-based markers: the writing wipes off with a damp cloth and the magnet can be reused. For writing that needs to last, use a permanent marker on the magnetic labels. On the transparent part of Magnetic Windows® and on the magnetic title, write with non-permanent markers.

With Magnetic Windows®: place the sheet on the board or on steel and cover it with the window, magnetic on three sides, from A5 to A1. If the sheet is to be filled in by hand, use the frame with the open center; to give each area a title, use the 70 mm high magnetic title. On machines, the magnetic document holder, from A7 to A4, also works well.

Yes, with printable A4 magnetic sheets and an inkjet printer: print icons, color legends, line names or product photos, then cut them out and attach them to the board. They are not compatible with laser printers.

Yes. Cardplan® boards, both whiteboards and insert boards, can be placed side by side, and you can add more of the same height. On the mobile stand the total width reaches 2040 mm; on the wall it depends on the brackets. Magnets, symbols and accessories can be added when needed.

Yes. Send us a photo or a sketch and tell us what you want to show and where the board will go: we will propose panels, magnetic items and accessories with quantities. For several departments or plants we prepare a single quote, with the same legend for all.