5S Methodology
5S Methodology articles, posts and tips at SafeWork Insider. Includes: visual management, 5S trends, tool control best practices, more.
5S Tool Control Best Practices
Tool control is an important tenet of 5S methodology. Time wasted searching for a tool is a significant problem…
How to Get Back to Work Safely: 6 Best Practices from 5S That Are Essential Now
An earlier version of this post was published on LinkedIn on May 4th, 2020. Our world…
Floor Marking Best Practices
Floor marking is a very commonly-used visual communication tool. From warehouses to high tech factories and even retail stores, the…
Building the 5S Team
Implementing 5S is not a one-person job. Much like kaizen is continuous improvement involving everyone, 5S works best when you…
Things to Do for 5S Success in 2020
Welcome to 2020 success with The 5S Store’s David Visco Meet Your 5S Guide David Visco is the author of 5S…
Leading A Lean Workplace – Manager Impact
Here is a great article about the impact a manager can have on leading a lean workplace from Jim Womak…
Sustain Your 5S Program with These Management Musts
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an easy button, especially when it comes to tackling 5S? You don’t have time to waste learning all the technical jargon when you have unique challenges to
What Benjamin Franklin can teach us about 5S
I have a feeling Benjamin Franklin would love the 5S methodology. He was a very orderly guy. In fact, the well-known…
The Sort Phase – Playing the 5S “Moving House” Game
Do you remember the last time you moved from one residence to another? I don’t think I’ve ever met a person yet who says, “I love moving! Bring on the boxes!” Moving requires us to pack up and sort all of our
Make Your 5S Red Tag Program Successful.
In any business, starting 5S can seem like an overwhelming task. The idea of organizing and sorting through hundreds of…
