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5S is a workplace organization method that uses a list of five
Japanese words: seiri ( ), seiton ( ), seisō ( ),
seiketsu ( ), and shitsuke ( ). These have been translated
as 'sort', 'set in order', 'shine', 'standardize', and 'sustain'.[1]
The list describes how to organize a work space for efficiency
and effectiveness by identifying and storing the items used,
maintaining the area and items, and sustaining the new
organizational system. The decision-making process usually
comes from a dialogue about standardization, which builds
understanding among employees of how they should do the
work.
5S methodology.
5S resource corner at Scanfil Poland
factory in Sieradz.
In some quarters, 5S has become 6S, the sixth element being
safety (safe).[2]
Other than a specific stand-alone methodology, 5S is
frequently viewed as an element of a broader construct
known as visual control,[3] visual workplace,[4] or visual
factory.[5][6] Under those (and similar) terminologies, Western
companies were applying underlying concepts of 5S before
publication, in English, of the formal 5S methodology. For
example, a workplace-organization photo from Tennant
Company (a Minneapolis-based manufacturer) quite similar to
the one accompanying this article appeared in a
manufacturing-management book in 1986.[7]
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