Seminar- Implementing, Managing & Sustaining 5S

Participants Will Learn...

• How 5S improves the workplace. 

• Why 5S makes for easier tasks. 

• Finding the optimum location for each item. 

• Standardizing work to avoid errors.

• How to evaluate a workplace using the 5S Scoresheet. 

• How visual controls can smooth operations and reduce errors.

• The differences between Signs, Signals and Controls and why they are important.

• How to manage the cultural changes necessary to sustain 5S improvements.

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Program Outline

1. Introduction To 5S and Visual Control

What It Is (and what it isn't) 

Benefits of Implementing 5S 

Purpose and Origins of 5S 

2. The 5S'

Sort 

The 3 Basic Categories 

Set-in-Order 

Location, Boundaries & Recoil 

Shine 

Developing Team Participation 

Examples - Before and After 

Standardize 

Sustain 

Eight Tools for Sustaining 5S 

Who Does What? 

Sustaining 5S Through Visual Controls

3. What Is Visual Control? 

Visual Control Video & Exercise

4. Implementing & Managing 5S & Visual Control

Kaizen Events 

Overcoming Resistance 

Five Necessary Conditions 

Getting Started and the Core Implementation Team 

What Managers Can Do 

Keys to Implementing a Successful Program 

Typical Program Schedule

5. Corporate Culture & Change

6. Into Action