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5S Workplace Organisation: Description

5S is a technique for organizing the workplace in five steps: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain. The goal is to create a friendly and stimulating work environment where deviations from standards are immediately visible. The five steps involve sorting through items and either keeping what is needed or disposing of unneeded items, determining storage locations, cleaning the workspace, establishing visual standards, and sustaining the organization through compliance and audits. Properly implementing 5S results in everything having a fixed location and quantity, easy identification and retrieval of needed items, minimal search times, an impeccably clean workspace, and visible deviations from standards.

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5S Workplace Organisation: Description

5S is a technique for organizing the workplace in five steps: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain. The goal is to create a friendly and stimulating work environment where deviations from standards are immediately visible. The five steps involve sorting through items and either keeping what is needed or disposing of unneeded items, determining storage locations, cleaning the workspace, establishing visual standards, and sustaining the organization through compliance and audits. Properly implementing 5S results in everything having a fixed location and quantity, easy identification and retrieval of needed items, minimal search times, an impeccably clean workspace, and visible deviations from standards.

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5S Workplace Organisation

5S is a technique that describes the way to a friendly and stimulating working


Description:
environment, in which deviations are immediately visible.

This can be achieved in five steps:

1. Sort

 When in doubt Â….throw it out!!!


Place all items that are not used in the current process in an auction area (Red
Tagging).

o Store

 Where; Determine the location, depending on the usage of the item;


 What; Clearly indicate what should be available
 How much; Determine the quantity

o Sweep

 Define who is responsible for which areas


Procedure:  Set up cleaning standards (5W2H)
 Make spots that are difficult to clean more accessible. Cleaning = inspecting!
 Standardize

o Fail safe; Cannot go wrong


o Visual steering mechanism; Warn when deviating
o Visual tool; Visible: One Point Lessons, general information

 Sustain

:
Make sure that people are willing to follow agreements:
a. Make the best way the easiest way;
b. Reward good behaviour
Check compliance with agreements by performing audits.

Different visions organizing working environments:


Shed: private, closed, aimed at individual Supermarket: public, open, aimed at group

  A friendly and stimulating workplace:

 Everything has a fixed location and quantity


 Everybody can immediately see, pick and return items required for the
process
Result:  Search time is maximally 30 seconds
   The workplace is impeccable clean
 Deviations from the standard are visible in one glance
 The process is under control by performing everything according to an
fixed agreement. Everybody acts according this standard until a better
standard has been found.
 There is a minimal amount of simple paperwork.

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