5S Work Place Management

5S Work Place Management

Why 5S

5S is workplace management where the work area and workplace are organised and ritualized to minimize the loss of time and the use of movement. 

Its first adopted in Japan (Basically in Toyota Production System)

5S is much more than a place for everything and everything in its place’. 

5S comprises five principles to make people highly efficient and effective in doing their work.

What Is 5S

5S having five Pilers

1. Sort: Short out Unnecessary from useful things
2. Set in order: After Sorting make a order of usefull items at workplace and workshop
3. Shine: Shine indicates good housekeeping along with the available tools, Preventive maintenance etc
4. Standardize: After Doing all above three steps, standardization is required, hence its 4th step
5. Sustain: Sustian the 5S activities by Auditing, Regular Inspection, Creating Zonal Heads to keep an eye, conducting 5S ,Review meetings Etc

5S has little to do with creating a clean and tidy work area where everything is neat, near-by, and easy and fast to get to. That is indeed what you see when you have a great 5S workplace, but that is not what 5S is for.

5-S Importance

• Preventing mistakes that ruin a job and makes scrap and rework
• Making sure equipment is reliable and works properly to make a perfect item every time
• Removing and preventing useless variation in work activities and machine performance
• Delivering exact quality products and service ever more quickly
• Keeping people and plant safe from hazards and harm

5-S How to Implement- 

Creating awareness and culture and demonstration of works will help to effective implementation of 5-S

Visit to other establishment those are implementing five S will Help.

Dividing the Zones and assigning 5S responsibility will Help