Gemba Walks are often done in a layered manner. At the lowest layer, the Department Manager does a daily walk, and an hourly associate presents the data. At these daily walks, it is common for the local maintenance mechanics, engineers, and QC technicians to participate.
LIDAR is similar to the radar commonly used to track everything from airplanes in flight to thunderstorms. But instead of bouncing radio waves off its target, LIDAR uses short pulses of laser light. Some of that light reflects off of tiny particles in the atmosphere and back to a telescope aligned with the laser.
- transmits microwaves in pulses - determines distance to objects and their angular position (from side) LiDAR - transmits optical laser light in pulses - determines distance to objects History of LiDAR - laser ranging developed in the 1960s - LiDAR terrain mapping began in 1970s - initial systems were âsingle beamâ, profiling devices - early use for terrain mapping limited by lack of accurate geo-referencing - early systems used for bathymetry