Hey everyone, welcome to this lecture. What is five s? Five S is a workplace organization method that can help improve the efficiency and management of operations. Five S stands for salt. The Japanese equivalent for sword is care, set in order or Seaton, shine, or seaso, standardize, or secrets and sustain or shifts okay. A process is impacted by its environment.
The ability of employees to respond to process change is also impacted by its environment. improvement in the general state of the work area is helpful for controlling the process. This includes easy access to tools, materials, artifacts, etc, cleanliness, lighting, and general housekeeping status of any area where measurements are conducted needs a suitable improved state of the work area. Example, a workbench cluttered with tools and accessories, wastes the valuable time of skilled workers and causes distraction from work, resulting in poor quality. Similarly, an office table covered with disorganized files and papers can cause clerical errors and delays in processing. fibers is one of the first tools to apply in the path to achieving lean enterprise organizations.
Let's discuss the term fibers in thorough detail. Startup remove unneeded items. Whether you are in office or home, you tend to collect items that are very rarely needed or not needed at all. Over a period of time, these items accumulate into a mess and make it less efficient to search for needed items. In a manufacturing environment. This chaos may even cause safety issues.
The first step is sorting through the items as required, and cleaning of the work area. never used items are to be discarded immediately. Set in order, arrange the required and rarely required items for ease of accessibility. The items that are required more often like slps files, instructions, tools, and so on, are placed in designated and marked locations so that they cannot be placed elsewhere. In short, a place for everything and everything in its place. The rarely required items like statement of work, shop floor layout plans and so on can be kept out of the way.
Shine. This involves cleaning the work area and equipment. As simple as this may sound, many quality issues are uncovered through effective cleaning of the work area. Manufacturing example, cleaning of the inspection surface plate provides better measurement results. cleaning of the equipment work table provides for better movement. cleaning of the floor prevents accidents.
For some industries like semiconductor manufacturing, cleanliness is mandatory and is measured in particle count how in service industries such as IP or BPO. Cleaning will refer to ensuring that correct files are updated in correct locations. version control of the files is done well, data collected from various sources is updated in a common location such as share drives, or SharePoint, etc. standardize This involves developing checklists, standards and work instructions to keep the work area in an orderly condition. sustain this is the most difficult sequence in five years. Most organizations are initially successful in the first four steps, but sustaining the efforts and continuing them requires support from management and empowerment of employees.
Management needs to realize that this time is well spent and be willing to invest in the time. The time invested in fibers improves productivity and overall efficiency and reduces accidents. management should also empower the employees by Allowing them to take ownership of their work areas. So far, I have explained the concept of fibers from a high level. Let's talk about a five s project in the next lecture.