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5S Store: Store back immediately after use
Store immediately after use. This 5S habit reminds you to get things done: store everything in its place right after you use it, or the job is not finished.
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5S Store – Define a home for ease of use
Microstep #5: Define a home for ease of use
This microstep is the habit of always organizing objects in a functional way, which allows you to immediately find what is needed when it is needed and especially how it is needed.
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5S Store – Prioritize what you need
nd it has three stages or microsteps. The first in is to prioritize what you need to use every day by frequency of use. You need to be able to retrieve things quickly when you need them. It’s time to determine where and when you need the items to allow for an efficient workflow.
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5S Store – Arrange For Ease of Use
The second step of 5S is “store” (or set in order), which derives from the Japanese term Seiton. It means organization. Here comes the second 5S principle: “A home for everything and everything in its home.” This phase focuses on placing the items deemed essential back into the workstation or Read more…
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5S Your Life – Sort
ort is the first step in any 5S process. The term sort derives originally from the Japanese word “Seiri” which means decide what you need. When you sort, the goal is to remove unnecessary items from the room, station, or space you live or work. Then, you would be ready to carry out the other four steps.
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5S Your Life – Standardize
‘Seiketsu,’ or Japanese for “standardizing,” is the fourth step in the 5S process. Now that you know what you need, where to store it and how to maintain it, make it official! This stage builds on the idea of sharing best practices, auditing and checking in on 5S efforts with regularity. By standardizing the approach to 5S, organizational efforts are sustained in the long run by everyone, everywhere.
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5S Your Life – Prevent small problems from getting bigger
5S Your Life – Prevent small problems from getting bigger
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5S Your Life – Expose complex issues
The 5S methodology takes seriously every single issue, exposes it, and requires a solution to solve it, reduce it, or contain it. Expose complex issues is micro-step #8 in the 5S Your Life, the second one in the shine step, to achieve self-organization and stop procrastination.
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5S Your Life – Assign responsibilities for maintenance
There is no better way to keep something clean than to prevent it from getting dirty in the first place. How do you prevent it? By assigning clear owners for the maintenance of each location/item. This is micro-step #7 in the 5S Your Life methodology, the first one in the shine step, to achieve self-organization and stop procrastination.
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5S Your Life – Shine
The third step of the 5S methodology is shine. This phase focuses on shining and cleaning everything to spot hidden problems (oil leaks, water drops, etc.). Cleaning is not just a matter of image; it is a matter of good communication. You can detect errors easily!