5S Concept
5S Concept
NOTE: Today, many companies use 6S, 7S or 8S by adding elements such as safety, quality or customer satisfaction
DEFINITION – WHAT IS 5S?
5S DESCRIPTION PRINCIPLES EXAMPLES
Keep only necessary ▪ Review tools, parts and instructions ▪ Obsolete expired procedures
Seiri items at the ▪ Keep only what is essential ▪ Damaged / expired inventory
Sort workplace ▪ Eliminate everything that is non-essential ▪ Outdated / old equipment
Clean the work area ▪ Initial cleaning of work station, tools and ▪ Dirty tools and equipment
Seiso so facilities ▪ Spills and leaks
Shine that it is neat and tidy ▪ Assign areas of responsibility ▪ Clutter and mess
▪ Return all items or files to their assigned place
▪ Eliminate causes of dirt and interruption
▪ Make cleaning a part of daily work
Set standards for a ▪ Create standards for “Sort", “Set in Order” and ▪ Work instructions
Seiketsu consistently “Shine” ▪ Hazard warnings
Standardize organized workplace ▪ Make standards easy to understand with visual ▪ Equipment / tool labels
controls ▪ Process diagrams
▪ Assign and educate on individual responsibilities
Moving products from Material / products Extra physical or mental Delays through
one place to another wait in the warehouse motion or bad shortages, stoppages,
without creating value to be worked on ergonomics waiting for machines
and approvals
Producing more than More excess value than Error corrections Skills and capacities
customer has ordered the customer requires; and repetitions of employees are not
waste in process fully used
WASTE IN THE ADMINISTRATION SECTOR
▪ Simplifies communication
PHASES OF
THE 5S CONCEPT
PHASE 1 – SORT
Yes
Yes
used
in the past year ▪ Store them Move to
Straighten
temporary
▪ Things you have not somewhere else & shine
storage
used once in the last
6-12 months
Search for possibilities to avoid dirt, dust and disorder in the future
Department: Facility:
Description:
Issued by / Date:
Approved by / Date:
Reference number:
PHASE 4 – STANDARDIZE
Results of this phase are standardized (trans-divisional)
solutions for the following questions:
▪ Consequent realization of the 5S phases ▪ Compliance with agreed rules and guidelines
▪ Compliance with the correct order of the ▪ Building a maintenance team to implement
phases repairs and improvement measures
▪ Prompt implementation of the phases ▪ Introduction of One-Page-Standards
▪ Definition of explicit responsibilities, also ▪ Evaluation and visualization of 5S circles
for corridors, storages and meeting rooms
IMPLEMENTATION OF 5S – PLANNING
LEVELS
PROJECT PLAN TO IMPLEMENT 5S PLANNING LEVEL 1
ACTIONS TIME WHAT?
Superior 5S
Development of Month 1 Discuss on top Present to senior Benchmarking:
5S measures management management What do our
implementation plan:
level competitors?
Organizational Month 2 Determination Incorporation of Decision on 5S
Lists all measures,
anchorage of the sponsor 5S coordinator
and other
consultants that are necessary for a
participants successful and sustained
implementation of 5S
Planning and Months 1 and 2 Creating Development of Starting 5S
correct overall plan a detailed plan communication
implementation for single work
areas
Realization of Months 3 to 6 Each department Spreading to Starting 5S in
the phases (depending on starts within other work areas work areas
size of the a pilot area, e.g. (adjustment of
company) production procedure)
Area D …
Area E …
… …
IMPLEMENTATION OF 5S – PLANNING
LEVELS
WEEK MAIN ACTIVITIES PLANNING LEVEL 3
1 Kick-off and 5S short training with all employees Implementation plan
of the work area
for one work area:
2 Workshop “Sort” (phase 1)
Communicates major
3 Sort with disintegration of quarantine area 5S activities to senior
Workshop “Systematize” (phase 2)
management and
4
employees
5 Implementation of solutions of phase “Systematize”
Monthly 5S circles
IMPLEMENTATION OF 5S – PL. LEVELS
… Workshop
“Systematize”
(phase 2)
… …
5S AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Typical Resistances Against the Implementation of 5S
CRITERIA 6 CRITERIA 4
Involvement of all affected Sensitive and flexible regulation
parties in developing solutions for different frame conditions
CRITERIA 5
Integration of 5S into day-to-day
business
KEY PERSONALITIES
& PRESERVATION OF 5S
KEY PERSONALITIES
INITIATOR / SPONSOR:
▪ Plays essential role, determines strategy,
schedule and budget
▪ In smaller companies the sponsor is very
often a member of senior management
▪ 5S should regularly be topic at
management meetings to report on
project achievements
and deviations of the original plan
KEY PERSONALITIES
COORDINATOR:
▪ Accompanies and guides the introduction
of 5S
▪ Has good leadership skills, is highly
committed, has a high frustration tolerance
▪ Good abilities in project management and able
to communicate with management and staff
▪ Is assertive and persuasive
▪ Positioning of the 5S coordinator is important:
the higher he is situated in the hierarchy and
the more management functions he is
appointed with, the greater will be his
acceptance
KEY PERSONALITIES
Main Tasks of the Coordinator
UNDERSTANDING TRAINING
5S needs to be trained until For new employees, the 5S
every employee has understood coordinator and his team execute
and internalized the concept and introduction programs or
principles of 5S intensive trainings on the spot
5S
becomes habit, the larger ▪ Motivation of all
will be the intervals of the employees
circles ▪ Creating organized and
▪ Evaluation sheets standardized work areas
document deviations and ▪ Involvement of all
improvements in the employees in the new
particular work area working culture
▪ Results are posted visible ▪ Work on continuous
for everyone on public improvements
information boards
DESIGNS &
IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
DESIGN
PRINCIPLES EXAMPLES
PRINCIPLES EXAMPLES
PRINCIPLES EXAMPLES
PRINCIPLES EXAMPLES
PRINCIPLES EXAMPLES
SUSTAIN
Maintain with
STANDARDIZE self-discipline
Visualization of
SHINE new standards
Initial cleaning
SET IN ORDER of the work
place
Put items in
SORT logical order
Sort out
unneeded items
IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
Implementation Plan for One Work Area
LEVEL SORT SET IN SHINE STANDARDIZE SUSTAIN
ORDER
Original State
0 Points
Rudimental
Implementation
1 Point
Visible Implementation
2 Points
Good Implementation
3 Points
Perfect Implementation
4 Points
Points per Phase
Maximum possible points: 20 Current points:
IMPLEMENTATION PLANS Section:
Examiner:
Points
„S“ Examined Area Explanation Notes
0 1 2 3 4 5
Working materials and Is there any idle working, cleaning
items or measuring material?
X
or spare parts?
Papers and documents Are there any unessential or Exp.: Papers are from last year
obsolete papers, information or X and must be revised urgently
documents?
Work place Are there personal things at the
work place? (e.g. lunch box,
thermos jug, magazines, radios
X
etc.
Total points (phase 1) 14
0 Points = worst implementation, 5 Points = best implementation – Repeat inspection for all 5S phases and figure out total points!
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