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Japanese Transliterated: 5S Is The Name of A Workplace Organization Method That Uses A List of

5S is a workplace organization method from Japan that consists of five Japanese words translated to English as sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain. It provides a system to organize a work space for efficiency by identifying necessary items, storing and maintaining the space and items, and sustaining the new organization. The process involves employee dialogue to standardize methods and build understanding of how work should be done. Some extend 5S to 6S by adding safety as the sixth element. 5S is also viewed as part of broader visual control and workplace organization constructs that Western companies applied before the formal 5S methodology was published in English.

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Japanese Transliterated: 5S Is The Name of A Workplace Organization Method That Uses A List of

5S is a workplace organization method from Japan that consists of five Japanese words translated to English as sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain. It provides a system to organize a work space for efficiency by identifying necessary items, storing and maintaining the space and items, and sustaining the new organization. The process involves employee dialogue to standardize methods and build understanding of how work should be done. Some extend 5S to 6S by adding safety as the sixth element. 5S is also viewed as part of broader visual control and workplace organization constructs that Western companies applied before the formal 5S methodology was published in English.

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5S is the name of a workplace organization method that uses a list of

five Japanese words: seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke.Transliterated into Roman Script,
they all start with the letter "S".[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 order.[2] The decision-making process usually comes from a dialogue about
standardization, which builds understanding among employees of how they should do the work.
In some quarters, 5S has become 6S, the sixth element being safety.[3]
Other than a specific stand-alone methodology, 5S is frequently viewed as an element of a broader
construct known as visual control,[4]visual workplace,[5] or visual factory.[6][7] 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.[8]

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