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.
Bosch and other suppliers expect another. boost from lidar, which uses pulsed laser. light to measure how far objects are from a. vehicle. As automakers design vehicles that can. change lanes automatically, they are likely. to add lidar sensors for better obstacle de-. tection.