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-====== 5S - Information (and Resources/Tools for Implemention) ======+====== 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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 |  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 =====