Business Excellence Consortium

5S and Visual Management

Improve cleanliness, organization, and safety in your workplace

This half-day module is designed for participants to learn why 5S is the foundation of Lean principles. It engages employees and builds excitement for the change process in your organization. 5S/Visual Management implementation leads to pride in the workplace while sustaining improvements for cleanliness, organization, and safety. The entire 5S/Visual Management process is covered in this module, from initial communication to all employees through implementation and process auditing.

Prerequisite: Lean Overview

Topics include:

• Comprehensive description of 5S (Sorting, Straightening, Sweeping, Standardizing, Sustaining)
• Why it is important to implement 5S
• The five steps of implementation
• Tools and techniques for implementation
• Red tagging strategies
• The keys to long-term 5S success
• Application of Visual Management practices
• Using visual standards for everyone
• Decision-making at a glance
• Typical examples of Visual Management

Upon completion, you will be able to:

• Define each 5S
• Describe how 5S activities are linked to bottom-line measurements
• Deploy and sustain a 5S program
• Use visual signals to speed the decision-making process