5s a quality improvement tool for sustainable performance: literature review and directions
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| 1.4 INTRODUCTION TO 5S
Japan despite being a small country with 0.3% landmass and 2.3% of population, has still emerged as the leader of manufacturing industries in the world due to its management tools and techniques (Hitomi, 2004). The Japanese manufacturing industries such as Honda, Toyota and Mitsubishi come in the list of top positions worldwide. It is a notable thing that Japanese not only achieve high level of productivity and profitability at home, but also gain success in the company’s operating overseas (Hitomi, 2004). Japan possesses limited amount of natural resources such as oil and coal. In spite of this, the most plentiful resource responsible for its competitive edge, is its people. From several hundred years, the principles of Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism were responsible for the embedment of philosophical concept of 5S in Japanese society (De Mente, 1994). The principle ‘Shintoism’ emphasizes on ‘cleanliness’, ‘Confucianism’ emphasizes on ‘orderliness’ and ‘Buddhism’ emphasizes on deriving spiritual fortitude from ‘self-discipline’. Japan has been traditionally emphatic on cooperation, advocating the values of trust, self-restraint, team working and organizational commitment. The formations of the aforesaid values were contributed by the principles of Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism in Japan (Watsuji, 1952). During 1989-1991’s, Takasi Osada was the first person who developed the framework of 5S based on five pillars in Japanese acronym for Seiri (organization), Setion (neatness), Sesio (cleaning), Seiketsu (standardization) and Shitsuke (discipline). 5S philosophy was developed in Japan and was formally introduced at the end of the 1960s, while the major framework for understanding and applying 5S were proposed by Osada (1991) and Hirano (1995). Firstly, 5S was implemented at Toyota Motor Corporation as part of their production system, namely Toyota Production System (TPS). Osada (1991) has introduced 5S as a methodology for building and realizing quality environment in an organization. Figure 1 depicts the Osada’s view of the 5S concept (Osada, 1989, 1991). Downloaded by University of Colorado Boulder At 23:40 17 January 2017 (PT) |