Industrial Mind Music
Problem Statement Remember the last time a manual told you to press a button and nothing happened? You spent fifteen minutes on the phone waiting for customer service, and then you’re told you just have to press it past where…
Vic Uzumeri
How to Triangulate Nuanced Issues with Video
In the companion blog post, I described an idea for a new way to explain nuanced policies, concepts and practices. In this post, I explore how current software and hardware tools might be applied to make the process faster and easier. Construction Process(s)…
Videos to Triangulate Nuanced Issues – Concept
Every organization struggles to communicate policies that are important, but require intelligent interpretation at the point of application. In fact, it is likely that most important policy directives apply to situations where there is uncertainty and an opportunity for intelligent choice.…
Using Video to Communicate Clearly
Problem You have a fairly subtle or nuanced point to make with a supplier, or perhaps a customer. The point may not be that complicated, but it involves some visual aspects or judgment and it is hard to explain it…
Video as Time Machine
My main reason for advocating the broader use of video in operations is because it can see and remember things that we can’t see or remember any other way. There are a lot of aspects to this perspective, but I think…
Tracking Vehicle Movements – Part 2
In the previous article on this topic, I described how I used the Dartfish Zone tagging tool to record the locations of trucks in an Intermodal yard. By using nearby landmarks, I was able to pick out the vehicle’s approximate…
Tracking Vehicle Movements – Part 1
In this post, I took a video of a process (an intermodal train yard) with complex behaviors and used continuous duration tags to select individual elements, follow them on sub-clips and reassemble an extended video so we could see each…
A Musical Experiment
With that in mind, I wanted to try something a bit smaller scale and precise. I wondered about the consistency and precision of a professional musician when he is performing a familiar piece. Bryan Crumpler () is a friend and…
Practicing Physical Skills – Video Verification
I know that there are some schools that are using or experimenting with Dartfish to improve the teaching of novice interpreters for American Sign Language. This makes sense because accurate signing is a precise physical skill that requires rigorous training and practice. Lasca…
Deconstructing Complexity with Video
In a previous posts previous post, I described how Dartfish can be used to scan and tag the interesting sections of long videos and assemble those juicy bits into a much shorter, more focused video clip. In this example, I…