5s a quality improvement tool for sustainable performance: literature review and directions
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| 1.5 ELEMENTS OF 5S
5S or kaizen is a method used to diminish the slack hidden in the plants (Monden, 1998). 5S Technique consists of five fundamental elements or arms which act as a foundation of a good production system. 5S concept is intended to organize, clean, standardized and maintain the discipline at workplace in pursuit of sustainable improvements in the productivity, efficiency cost optimization and reduction of waste in an organization (Osada, 1989; Marasinghe, 2012). Figure 2 represent the various elements of 5S represented as arms of 5S. Figure 2 Arms of 5S 1.5.1 Seiri: Sort The first element of 5S is ‘Seiri’ (Organization) is about sorting or keeping the necessary things or items at their appropriate places (Hough, 2008). To introduce the principle of organization called Sieri, there is need of combined effort of organization and self-discipline (Ho, 1997). Seiri holistically discourages the age old hoarder’s mentality of employees at Downloaded by University of Colorado Boulder At 23:40 17 January 2017 (PT) 8 of 45 workplace, whereby large quantities of items or goods were retained at workplace irrespective of their immediate utilization at workplace. Seiri calls for effective utilization of workplace space and also promotes that the goods or items should be segregated strictly in accordance to the relevance and frequency of utilization at workplace in order to create efficient workplace (Osada, 1991). Seiri is helpful element for estimating the material or goods requirements at present and future, which is necessary and stored at their respective workplace. Seiri facilitates avoiding the stack of irrelevant things at workplace thereby eliminating hindrance in the flow of work (Chapman, 2005). The benefits of 5S first element include: saving of space, searching time is quite short, safe and clean workplace, detection of damage is easy (Sorooshian et al., 2012). tải về 0.69 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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