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Why You Should Start a 5S Program

Article Category: Business Management

Author Name: Chris Burnham

Whenever the majority of business leaders find out about 5S, they conclude that it is actually just an elegant housekeeping initiative. An audit or methodical examination of the 5S technique affirms that it is much more powerful than simple housekeeping. Below are some of the top reasons you should be driving a 5s program at your business.

Enhanced Safety
One of the constitutive reasons companies implement 5s is to ensure that there is a place for everything and everything is in it's place. When clutter is cleared out and things are actually set in order safety risks can be identified much more easily. Pedestrian aisles in manufacturing and distribution settings are unmistakably designated. Trip hazards are reduced. Tools and equipment are generally kept in clearly marked places where they belong. A heightened state of awareness of the workplace generates amplified focus to preventative maintenance. Habitual 5s audits or waste walks by senior management should focus first on safety and then on inhibitors to quality, delivery, and cost. Almost always when waste is identified it can be remedied by one of the phases of 5s.

Improved Quality
Quality concerns can be more quickly detected in an atmosphere that has an acute understanding of 5s and it's basic principles. Whenever a process or product is not delivering it's desired result, the 5s environment makes it painfully noticeable that something is wrong. Employees are entrusted to "stop and solve" and negligible rework is required for defective outputs from the defective method. The quality of the work performed increases. Folks that take great pride and care in their work environment will also take great pride and care in their work product. You can not insist on six sigma levels of quality when you don't expect elementary matters like brooms to be replaced where they belong.

Improved Delivery or Improved Efficiency
Anytime things are ordered and standardized in a 5s environment, Performance and efficiency increase exponentially. People can find what they require when they need it. The activities in these workplaces are stable, capable, repeatable, and teachable. Individuals do not need to hunt for tools or raw material. The resulting savings in time gradually accumulates and output is at a higher level with the comparable number of people in the value stream. Enhanced delivery and reduced cycle time may not look like a big deal when you are shipping whatchamacallits, but if you are a person in an emergency room who is in acute pain you don't want people hunting for the medicine you desperately need. Currently there is an exclusive discipline honed in around lean medicine.

Decreased Costs
Most people link decreasing costs with dismissing employees. In a Lean environment the focus is on removing or reducing waste and respect for the employee. Efficiency is evaluated from output per employee. Assuming that you increase your output but the number of employees remains the same you have increased your efficiency. Getting rid of wasted motion of people and parts, decreasing wait times and in process inventories you can diminish your lead time.

It depends on you
The case for why you should implement 5s is pretty clear. The very best thing you can do is get started. Locate a single area in your workplace and concentrate on it. Pull a crew together and set up a sorting event in that area. Build momentum off of that event and get started on starting your very own lean campaign in your workplace.

Keywords: 5s, 5s Audit, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Implementation, Lean Six Sigma

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