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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Assembling a View of Multiple Operations
At the end of the Hartybake production process there is an automatic bagger. Waffles are placed on a conveyor with small moving pegs to control spacing. Workers transfer…
The Magic of Special Cases
In a previous post, I showed a way to extract detailed operational data from a video clip of human-paced operations. As I did the tagging,…