I harp a lot on documenting processes for running your business… in fact if you go back and read the blog archives from the beginning I think standardization comes up in just about all of the original posts, it’s that important! It’s also very fitting to be a part of 5S.
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Continuing along our journey to becoming more and more “lean” in your business environment, after sorting and straightening the workplace and all items used for work… now is the time to sweep, scrub and shine everything until it is spotless including the work environment itself.
Most times it seems this is the part of 5Sing (other [...]
Continuing on with our 5S in five days series, it’s time to take the next step and go over another major piece of getting the workplace organized and that is straightening or putting in order all of the items that are left behind and used to perform work after sorting out the unneeded garbage.
Essentially straighten [...]
Good housekeeping is one of the best things to do to help facilitate a neat and orderly work environment that is conducive to continuous improvement and kaizen. Let’s briefly look at the first S in 5S; sort.
Sorting out the necessary and unnecessary items is your first task, this means it’s time to go out and [...]
Once I had an interesting conversation with a friend, Mike, about kaizen and in particular 5Sing a workplace to keep it neat and orderly including a regular maintenance program (sometimes referred to as total productive or total preventative maintenance) for equipment used in the workplace.
The point I was making was that the operators of the [...]
An essential ingredient for increasing productivity is good housekeeping, this includes cleaning up the areas where work is done to get rid of unused, obsolete and antiquated items that are getting in the way. Another required piece of good housekeeping is organizing or straightening the items and tools that are used to perform a task.
Simply [...]
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The absolute worst time to begin building quality into the business processes is when the customer complains due to issues like poor quality, late delivery and so forth. Plainly stated customers aren’t the quality control department… if you have to reactively engage in improvement efforts due to customer complaints then your business has some serious [...]
Are you listening for it?
If the items needed to accomplish work are stashed in drawers, stuck in a mountain of paper, loaded in the closet or hidden in a back room… probably not.
Once the work environment is cleaned up, organized and proper visual indicators setup at points of use the workplace begins to speak. It [...]
How many times do you see the person fixing a major problem time and time again being rewarded for doing a good job? If constant firefighting of reoccurring problems goes on in your business and those who fix the issue receive accolades… you should be ashamed. Operating in a constant reactive panic mode is a [...]