DESIGN THINKING FOR INNOVATION 

 Tool : Visualization 

 Challenge & Selection : 

 Visualization is a great tool that helps a person to convey his / her ideas to the stakeholders 

 and in turn get their views as well . I also believe that visualization is a great technique to avoid 

 any kind misunderstanding in a group project and everyone can put their ideas clearly on the 

 table . This helps a lot since it is important to clearly understand the problem before beginning 

 any project . Visualization also plays a significant role , when a diverse group of people are 

 being addressed . 

 During my apparel internship , I was given a project to improve the quality of outputs of all 

 the assembly line in the shirt manufacturing factory . After identifying the types of defects and 

 calculating the DHU% ( Defects per hundred units ) , we made a possible cause and effect 

 diagram which showed that the checkers of each assembly were ignorant of the defects and 

 were not able to grasp the idea of quality as a significant role in production . Hence , there was 

 need for training not just the checkers but also their supervisors . The challenge that I faced 

 was to convey the idea to both the managers and the checkers ( many of whom were not 

 literate ) , that quality is as important an aspect as meeting production targets , before actually 

 starting to improve quality of the outputs . 

 Application : 

 The main aim of their training was to discuss with the assembly line checkers and managers 

 that why quality is important , and above all how can they be benefitted by the same . Before 

 I started the session a video was shown to the participants in order to understand the basics 

 of quality and how small steps taken can lead to big profitable changes . In the training session 

 fundamentals were discussed with help of comic characters and different photographs taken 

 by me , of their working process and the defects that were occurring again and again . Then 

 the participants were asked to identify the defects in the given samples . A major issue that 

 was raised during these sessions was that in order to complete their targets for the day , they 

 often missed many defects . Upcoming sessions all of us put combined efforts in devising 

 various ways through which these defects can be identified in limited time frame . This was 

 done by first preparing an inspection process for each part of the shirt and in order to make 

 this clearly understandable the checkers were encouraged to prepare a pictorial process chart 

 of the same . The same was displayed near their workstations . Checkers were encouraged to 

 draw the corrects diagrams of different parts of the shirt , and then with help of quality 

 technicians we developed work aids for them to speed up their checking process . 

 Insight : 

 Overall the results were tremendous , efficiency of checkers was improved , they were better 

 equipped to do their job , and DHU% reduced drastically . By visualizing every step of this 

 training , the entire quality team was able to overcome many obstacles and were now better 

 aware for the issues that might come their way in the future . Also , the Visual Tool was so 

 successful that the factory management thought to use it in its other departments as well 

 including the cutting and finishing departments . Another important step that they took was 

 to hold meetings where the entire quality team participated and the visual tool became an 

 imperative part of it ! 

 Approach : 

 After witnessing the results , I realised that involving the checkers from the beginning could 

 have resulted in even better understanding of the issues faced by them , by me and the 

 management as well . Also , many of them were not comfortable with the idea of giving 

 interviews , which also made me realise of asking them to submit illustrations of quality 

 related issues that they faced on a regular basis . This approach will be considered by the 

 managers at the factory for other departments . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: DESIGN THINKING FOR INNOVATION 

 Tool : Visualization 

 Challenge & Selection : 

 Visualization is a great tool that helps a person to convey his / her ideas to the stakeholders 

 and in turn get their views as well . I also believe that visualization is a great technique to avoid 

 any kind misunderstanding in a group project and everyone can put their ideas clearly on the 

 table . This helps a lot since it is important to clearly understand the problem before beginning 

 any project . Visualization also plays a significant role , when a diverse group of people are 

 being addressed . 

 During my apparel internship , I was given a project to improve the quality of outputs of all 

 the assembly line in the shirt manufacturing factory . After identifying the types of defects and 

 calculating the DHU% ( Defects per hundred units ) , we made a possible cause and effect 

 diagram which showed that the checkers of each assembly were ignorant of the defects and 

 were not able to grasp the idea of quality as a significant role in production . Hence , there was 

 need for training not just the checkers but also their supervisors . The challenge that I faced 

 was to convey the idea to both the managers and the checkers ( many of whom were not 

 literate ) , that quality is as important an aspect as meeting production targets , before actually 

 starting to improve quality of the outputs . 

 Application : 

 The main aim of their training was to discuss with the assembly line checkers and managers 

 that why quality is important , and above all how can they be benefitted by the same . Before 

 I started the session a video was shown to the participants in order to understand the basics 

 of quality and how small steps taken can lead to big profitable changes . In the training session 

 fundamentals were discussed with help of comic characters and different photographs taken 

 by me , of their working process and the defects that were occurring again and again . Then 

 the participants were asked to identify the defects in the given samples . A major issue that 

 was raised during these sessions was that in order to complete their targets for the day , they 

 often missed many defects . Upcoming sessions all of us put combined efforts in devising 

 various ways through which these defects can be identified in limited time frame . This was 

 done by first preparing an inspection process for each part of the shirt and in order to make 

 this clearly understandable the checkers were encouraged to prepare a pictorial process chart 

 of the same . The same was displayed near their workstations . Checkers were encouraged to 

 draw the corrects diagrams of different parts of the shirt , and then with help of quality 

 technicians we developed work aids for them to speed up their checking process . 

 Insight : 

 Overall the results were tremendous , efficiency of checkers was improved , they were better 

 equipped to do their job , and DHU% reduced drastically . By visualizing every step of this 

 training , the entire quality team was able to overcome many obstacles and were now better 

 aware for the issues that might come their way in the future . Also , the Visual Tool was so 

 successful that the factory management thought to use it in its other departments as well 

 including the cutting and finishing departments . Another important step that they took was 

 to hold meetings where the entire quality team participated and the visual tool became an 

 imperative part of it ! 

 Approach : 

 After witnessing the results , I realised that involving the checkers from the beginning could 

 have resulted in even better understanding of the issues faced by them , by me and the 

 management as well . Also , many of them were not comfortable with the idea of giving 

 interviews , which also made me realise of asking them to submit illustrations of quality 

 related issues that they faced on a regular basis . This approach will be considered by the 

 managers at the factory for other departments .
### Output: 