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5s Primer
5s Primer
WHAT IS 5S ? ·Seire : by disposing unnecessary and irrelevant items 3.0 SEISO PROCEDURE:
- work will be easier
5S is a Japanese methodology adopted worldwide because - no more need to take care of unnecessary items 3.1 Seiso should be practice everyday, every shift. Put
of its simplicity. 5S is properly known to stand for the 5 aside 3-5 minutes everyday/every shift to do the
·Seiton : with a systematic arrangement of the workplace
Japanese word starting with letter “S”. sweeping activity
- prevent loss and waste of time and effort for 3.2 Don’t wait until things get dirty. Clean your workplace
storage and retrieval regularly so theres no chance of getting dirty
- make work flow clear and easy to fine 3.3 Never throw anything and anywhere until it becomes a
·Seiso : cleaning your workplace thouroughly habit
WHAT DOES 5S MEANS? - keeps your workplace safe and healthy for work 3.4 Cleaning is also checking. Regular cleaning and
- prevent work errors, sickness and accidents checking extend the lives of the machines and reduces
Japanese English Meaning - prevent hazard and damages breakdown
·Seiketsu : by maintaining high standards of housekeeping
SEIRE Sort or clearing Take out or waste free, well arranged, safe and healthy 4.0 SEIKETSU PROCEDURE:
unnecessary workplace, we set a condition of highly
items and dispose productive working environment 4.1 Create a maintenance system for housekeeping. Make
reduces losses and equipment breakdown a schedule in cleaning your workplace
SEITON Systematize or Arrange - promotes high moral workforce 4.2 Decide which things must be put somewhere. Draw up
Arrangement necessary items - highly efficient and productive a plan of location of the item
in good order 4.3 Items needed very often relative to the work must be
·Shitsuke : doing things spontaneously without being told or
place very near to the workstation. Items seldom used
SIESO Sweep or Clean your ordered must be place further away
Neatness workplace - systematic work environment everybody do their 4.4 Label each location with what is being kept.
thoroughly share
- eliminates human error since everyone is focus to
5.0 SHITSUKE PROCEDURE:
SEIKETSU Sanitize or Main high his / her work.
Discipline standards of 5.1 Treat your workplace as your own second home.
housekeeping Maintain camaraderie with your work mates
and workplace HOW TO PRACTICE 5S STEP BY STEP: 5.2 Strictly maintain a clean workplace individually
organization 5.3 Develop the habit of cleanliness and tidiness
1.0 SEIRI PROCEDURE 5.4 Be aware of your own attitude and bad habit. Your
SHITSUKE Self Discipline or Do things workplace is an important place where your make
Order spontaneously 1.1 Sort, clear, dispose and categorize things according to income for yourself and your family. If you hope your
without being told what is necessary and what is not (things belonging to home to be clean and comfortable place, why don’t you
or ordered you or things belonging to others / company.) Never try to make your workplace as clean and comfortable
keep anything which are unnecessary to your work. as your home.
1.2 If you and your colleagues cannot decide if an item is
WHY 5S AND 5S STEPS? not necessary or unnecessary, put a disposal notice
with the date on the item and set them aside.
It is the most basic and fundamental approach to 1.3 After a period (say 1-2 months) check if someone
productivity and quality improvement in all types of needs the item or not. If no one needed the item that
business and particulary effective at offices and factories means you can dispose them.
A systematic method of creating and maintaining an 1.4 Minimize the number of items to be managed and
organized and clean workplace simplify them.
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BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING 5S: NOTES: 4
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5S is not only a matter of housekeeping it is an integrated
approach for Productivity improvement and ensure the following
to the company that practice 5S.
P – 5S increase Productivity
Q – 5S improves Quality
C – 5S reduces Cost
S – 5S improves Safety
M – 5S improves Moral
MAKING 5S A WAY
OF LIFE IN FSCP