5s (Workplace Organization)

Implementation
 What are the 5S’s?
• They are the keys to workplace
organization, housekeeping, and visual
management.
• Simple and produces:
– Increase in quality
– Increase in productivity
– Cleaner workplace which produces a safer
workplace
– Earlier identification of abnormal business
situations
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 Waste
• Waste is anything other than the
MINIMUM amount of people, time,
equipment, material, parts, and space
required to ADD VALUE to the product.

• The 5S’s apply everywhere.

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 The 8 General Types of Waste
• Scrap/Rework/Remake
• Transportation
• Motion
• Waiting Time
• Inventory
• Overproduction
• Overprocessing
• Underutilized Human Resources

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 The 5S’s
• Sort
– Proper arrangement
• Straighten (Store)
– Orderliness
• Sweep (Shine)
– Cleanliness
• Schedule (Standardize)
– Cleaned up, standardized.
• Sustain
– Discipline, practice and repeat.
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 The Origin of 5S
Step # Japanese English 5S Word
Word Translation
1 Seiri Proper Sort
Arrangement
2 Seiton Orderliness Straighten

3 Seiso Cleanliness Sweep

4 Seiketsu Cleaned Up Schedule

5 Shitsuke Discipline Sustain

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SORT

• Definition: Involves the sorting of the

contents in an area and removing
unnecessary items.
• Why: Problems are reduced & it improves
work flow & communication.
• Problems avoided: Clutter in the workplace.
(i.e. Time wasted searching for tools and/or
parts. Un-needed inventory such as parts
and/or material.)

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 SET IN ORDER
• Definition: Involves the arrangement of the
necessary items for easy and efficient access
and keeping them in that order.
• Why: Eliminates many kinds of waste. (i.e.
Scrap, time, lost opportunity.)
• Problems avoided: Waste in motion,
searching, human energy, excess inventory, &
defective products.

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SHINE

• Definition: Involves the cleaning of everything

in the work area and keeping it clean.
• Why: Use cleaning as a way to ensure that
the area & equipment are maintained as they
should be “ in like new condition”.
• Problems avoided: Low moral, safety issues,
& hidden defects.

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STANDARDIZE
• Definition: Involves creating or updating
SOPS for keeping the area organized, orderly,
clean and make the workplace more visual
and obvious.
• Why: Integrates first 3 S into a unified
structure.
• Problems avoided: helps to prevent
regression.

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SUSTAIN
• Definition: Involves education,
communication, and supervisory and
management engagement to ensure that
everyone adheres to the standards developed
for workplace organization.
• Why: Benefits of doing it exceed the excuses
of not doing it.
• Problems avoided: Clutter, chaos, & bad
communications.

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 Lack of 5S
• Hides safety problem
• Creates waste
• Limits a company’s ability to satisfy their
customers.
You never get a second chance to make a
first impression.
World class facilities develop beginning with
the 5S’s, and facilities that fall, fall apart
beginning with the 5S’s
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