Annual Lean Clean Up Using Practical 5S
If you have been diligent with your 5S activities this year, your annual clean up is an opportunity for another...
5S Lean Housekeeping: Sort, Set, Shine, Standardise, Sustain
To have an organised and efficiently running factory, we need to know that everything has a place, is in that...
Is 5S Really Just a Waste of Time?
5S is one of the foundations of a successful Lean Manufacturing system but many businesses we have seen place too...
The Top 12 Lean Tools for Lean Manufacturing
Read our top 12 Lean tools for sustaining a Lean transformation....
Our Top 5 Practical 5S Workplace Organisation Videos
Practical 5S is one of the easiest Lean techniques to implement but one of the hardest to sustain. View a...
Act Your Way into a New Way of Thinking with 5S and Lean
Here are three Lean tools that can help our team act their way to a new way of thinking, acting...
The Top Lean Tools for Maintenance
As we implemented and refined our Lean Enterprise Production System the stability of the processes becomes extremely important. We need...
Setting Practical 5S Standards
How Do You Set Practical Standards? At the beginning many people find the idea of a 5S program to be...
Sustaining Practical 5S Workplace Organisation
In preforming 5S activities on site I often see that the initial efforts go well and gains are quickly made...
5S and a Visual Workplace – Essential for Sustaining Lean Manufacturing
Many lean experts are critical of 5S and think it is a superficial tool. However while, 5S and Visual Workplace...
Practical 5S: Lean Begins With a Well Organised Workplace
Where ever you are in your Lean Manufacturing implementation, using 5S as your workplace organisation tool ensures you are keeping...
Doing 5S Workplace Organisation Effectively
These common pitfalls are often seen as failures and lead to poor ongoing implementation of 5S practises. However, the benefits...
Why Audit Weekly 5S Workplace Organisation?
We know that housekeeping is one of the fundamental Lean principles; a foundation stone for the Toyota Production System and...