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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77
5-S - A workplace organization methodology centered around five Japanese words which start with the letter S. The Japanese words (and their English transliterated versions) are: seiri (sorting), seiton (straighten or set in order), seiso (sweeping or shining), seiketsu (standardizing) and ****suke (sustaining).
Imagine if we tried doing this all the time at home and at work? In our workshops and our closets? Talk about cleaning up ones shyt!
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I was introduced to 5S at my new company, and it was a big shock coming from University, where the most creative professors have piles of papers to the ceiling of their offices, and the most productive labs look like a big mess.
In our company, things looks so clean all the time, it seems like nobody is working, and when one is working, we worry that someone is going to make a remark that things are not looking 5S...Leave an experiment on the bench for next day, and people are going to frown at you. As often, the idea is good, but the problem happens when it is implemented and enforced my managers who are never actually working with the stuff they want to be 5Sed...