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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 round of SORT - SET in ORDER - SHINE to target those little areas that don't get attention ...
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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 place and is clean and ready for use - this is the basic premiss for the Lean manufacturing ...
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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 much emphasis on the 5S portion of their Lean Management System.
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The Top 12 Lean Tools for Lean Manufacturing
Read our top 12 Lean tools for sustaining a Lean transformation.
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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 selection of 5S Lean Minute Videos from the TXM Lean Solutions archive and learn how to sustain ...
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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 “as if” they have already achieved their improvement goals, and become a world class organisation.
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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 a good parts supply, reliable quality, dependable people, with ...
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Setting Practical 5S Standards
How Do You Set Practical Standards? At the beginning many people find the idea of a 5S program to be as a daunting undertaking. Poorly designed and executed 5S program can indeed be stifling to a organisation ...
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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 to production areas. Over time this may begin to slide as the initial drive gives way to ...