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-====== 5S - Information and resources/tools for implementing ======+====== 5S - Information (and Resources/Tools for Implementation) ======
  
 Does your business look like a candidate for an industrial version of the TV show "Hoarders"? Are work areas cluttered and unorganized? Does your business look like a candidate for an industrial version of the TV show "Hoarders"? Are work areas cluttered and unorganized?
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 ===== What is 5S ===== ===== What is 5S =====
  
-5S uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri (整理), seiton (整頓), seisō (清掃), seiketsu (清潔), and shitsuke (躾). These have been translated as "sort", "set in order", "shine", "standardize", and "sustain".+5S uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri (整理), seiton (整頓), seisō (清掃), seiketsu (清潔), and shitsuke (躾). These have been translated for English-speaking users as: "sort", "set in order", "shine", "standardize", and "sustain".
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 |  Sustain  |Institutionalize 5S throughout the organization & audit compliance to ensure ongoing effectiveness. | |  Sustain  |Institutionalize 5S throughout the organization & audit compliance to ensure ongoing effectiveness. |
  
-While 5S is often graphically represented as an iterative cycle... I've never seen it applied as such. I suspect because a continuous cycle doesn't make sense in a practical application. Instead, it would be more accurately represented as a spiral that spins off in the "Sustain" mode (as shown to the above right - which I "believe" was created by Mr. Graham Cripps). After all, the first 4 steps in the process would not need to be repeated unless (or until) the process was changed (e.g., improved).+While 5S is often graphically represented as an iterative cycle... I've never seen it applied as such. I suspect because a continuous cycle doesn't make sense in a practical application. Instead, it would be more accurately represented as a spiral that spins off in the "Sustain" mode (as shown to the above right - which I "believe" was created by Mr. Graham Cripps).((Graham Cripps "Business Plan - Plan-Do-Check-Act Keep the Plan Alive" Posted on Wed, Jul 25, 2012 @ 03:28 PM, https://blog.resultsresults.co.uk/blog/bid/192143/Business-Plan-Plan-Do-Check-Act-Keep-the-Plan-Alive)) After all, the first 4 steps in the process would not need to be repeated unless (or until) the process was changed (e.g., improved).
  
 In his article, [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-treasure-fords-original-philosophy-cando-ravindranath-pandian/|"LOST TREASURE: Ford’s original philosophy of ‘CANDO’"]] Ravindranath Pandian notes that attempts to find single word labels equivalent to those five Japanese words have mostly failed, due to linguistic challenges. Such translators have worked hard to find words that begin with the letter S, a poor strategy. However, sans poetic brevity, fuller explanations of each Japanese word in 5S using a few lines of text, have conveyed their original meaning.((Ravindranath Pandian, "LOST TREASURE: Ford’s original philosophy of ‘CANDO’", Published Jun 26, 2016, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-treasure-fords-original-philosophy-cando-ravindranath-pandian/)) In his article, [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-treasure-fords-original-philosophy-cando-ravindranath-pandian/|"LOST TREASURE: Ford’s original philosophy of ‘CANDO’"]] Ravindranath Pandian notes that attempts to find single word labels equivalent to those five Japanese words have mostly failed, due to linguistic challenges. Such translators have worked hard to find words that begin with the letter S, a poor strategy. However, sans poetic brevity, fuller explanations of each Japanese word in 5S using a few lines of text, have conveyed their original meaning.((Ravindranath Pandian, "LOST TREASURE: Ford’s original philosophy of ‘CANDO’", Published Jun 26, 2016, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-treasure-fords-original-philosophy-cando-ravindranath-pandian/))
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 |  Seiso  \\ (清掃)  |means Clean, not Shine. The idea is to have production operators clean their own workplaces at shift end, so that they notice details like spills, frayed cables, or broken lamps. It is not about making them pretty. | |  Seiso  \\ (清掃)  |means Clean, not Shine. The idea is to have production operators clean their own workplaces at shift end, so that they notice details like spills, frayed cables, or broken lamps. It is not about making them pretty. |
 |  Seiketsu（清潔)  |does not mean Standardize. In everyday Japanese, it is a noun meaning cleanliness. In 5S, it is the reduction of the first three S’s to daily practice by management enforcement, through things like checklists, assignment of responsibility for daily housekeeping activities, and routine audits. | |  Seiketsu（清潔)  |does not mean Standardize. In everyday Japanese, it is a noun meaning cleanliness. In 5S, it is the reduction of the first three S’s to daily practice by management enforcement, through things like checklists, assignment of responsibility for daily housekeeping activities, and routine audits. |
-|  Shitsuke \\ 躾)  |does not mean Sustain. In everyday Japanese, it is a noun, meaning upbringing. It is not an action but the condition you reach when the performance of the first three S’s has become second nature to the organization. As long as you tell your kid to brush his teeth every day, you are practicing Seiketsu; once he does it without prompting, you have achieved Shitsuke. |+|  Shitsuke \\ (躾)  |does not mean Sustain. In everyday Japanese, it is a noun, meaning upbringing. It is not an action but the condition you reach when the performance of the first three S’s has become second nature to the organization. As long as you tell your kid to brush his teeth every day, you are practicing Seiketsu; once he does it without prompting, you have achieved Shitsuke. | 
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 +===== Getting Started ===== 
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 +The best way to start a 5S program is through informing personnel in what "5S" is, your intention to implement 5S, inviting their participation in the process, and providing them training in the basics of 5S. 
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 +There are a large number of [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=5S+training+video|5S training videos available on YouTube]]. 
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 +People working in the targeted areas usually have some fantastic ideas to address the "low hanging fruit" (problems easily solved). To expand their ideas beyond the simple improvement, they will need to be trained in the resources available to them. For example, availability and use of "Visual Work Place" resources, such as shadow boards, color-coded and labeled floor tapes, etc. to maximize the 5S efforts. 
  
 ===== Free 5S Resources ===== ===== Free 5S Resources =====
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 And videos... such as: \\ And videos... such as: \\
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 ===== 5S Audits ===== ===== 5S Audits =====
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 [[https://www.mudamasters.com/en/lean-toolbox-lean-production/5s-audit-templates|Muda Masters]] offers several free 5S Audit Templates (i.e., Checklists). [[https://www.mudamasters.com/en/lean-toolbox-lean-production/5s-audit-templates|Muda Masters]] offers several free 5S Audit Templates (i.e., Checklists).
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 +5S Checklist for the Office \\ 
 +https://citoolkit.com/wp-content/uploads/templates/5s_audit_checklist_offices.pdf
 ===== History of 5S ===== ===== History of 5S =====
  
-5S actually began in the USA as "CANDO". Developed by Henry Ford (probably prior to 1920), CANDO is an acronym for five steps: \\+5S actually began in the USA as "CANDO". Developed by Henry Ford (probably prior to 1920). CANDO is an acronym for five steps: \\
 **C** = Cleaning up \\  **C** = Cleaning up \\ 
 **A** = Arranging \\  **A** = Arranging \\ 
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 **O** = Ongoing improvement \\  **O** = Ongoing improvement \\ 
  
-Some people prefer the CANDO acronym in the familiar (albeit rarely actually utilized) iterative cycle graphic image. However, I maintain that "Sustain" is more appropriate.+Some people (often working with theory rather than application) prefer the CANDO acronym in the familiar (albeit rarely actually utilized) iterative cycle graphic image. However, based upon application & observation, I maintain that "Sustain" is more appropriate.
  
 In his book "Today and Tomorrow" (1926), Henry Ford wrote: In his book "Today and Tomorrow" (1926), Henry Ford wrote: