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Sort (organization) – Clearly distinguish needed from unneeded
items and eliminate the latter.
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Set in Order (orderliness) – Keep needed items in the correct place
for easy and immediate retrieval.
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Shine (cleanliness) – Keep the workplace swept and thoroughly
clean.
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Standardize (routine clean-up) – Standardize clean-up
and organization through guidelines
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Sustain (discipline – habit) – Make a habit of
maintaining established 5S procedures and discipline through verification and
checklists.
Sort (organization)
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Only use materials, equipment, tooling, and supplies that
are needed, when they are needed, in the quantities needed.
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Eliminate excess/obsolete equipment
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Eliminate excess/obsolete inventory
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Improve inefficient space utilization
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Eliminate space taken up by unneeded items
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Remove outdated papers and files
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Reduce cabinets, shelving, lockers containing supplies
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Look in unlabeled containers, boxes, shelves, bottom of
locations
q Eliminate outdated
posters, wall boards, metrics, slogans, banners
Set in Order (orderliness)
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Put everything has a useable place
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Make every item visible, reachable and available when needed
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Locate missing tools, documents, instructions, keys and
inventory
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Define clear, shiny, well-marked aisle-ways
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Color-code areas
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Post slogans and banners
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Limit work in process
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Standard Work documents
Shine (cleanliness)
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The cleaner the better
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Clean areas where red-tagged items were removed
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Remove dirt, oil, scraps and garbage
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Clean on a daily basis
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Audit the cleaning process
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Improve equipment maintenance
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Clean aisles, walkways, floors, machines, desks
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Assign cleaning responsibilities
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Create target areas: equipment, floors and inventories
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Cleaning checklists
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Verification review procedure
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Correct deficiencies
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Cleaning is a team effort
Correct root cause of unclean items
Standardize (routine cleanup)
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Maintain and control continual improvement achievements
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Ensure systematic organization, sorting, and scrubbing clean
are synchronized
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Ask: Why? Who? What? When? Where? How? How much?
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Plan, allocate, act and verify
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Step 1: Plan - Who does what and when
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Step 2: Allocate - Assign resources to tasks
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Step 3: Act - Perform tasks and integrate into daily
operations
Step 4: Verify - Ensure effectiveness
q Practice
prevention, discipline and accountability
q Ensure
control of systematic organization, orderliness and cleanliness
q Perseverance
and discipline are required to ensure improvements are maintained
q Identify
how actions are to be accomplished
q Develop
Standard Work sheets
q Follow-up
on actions and responsibilities
q Hold
people accountable
q Lead by
example
q Persistently
communicate and advertise
q Perform a gap analysis on defects and identify corrective actions