5s a quality improvement tool for sustainable performance: literature review and directions
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- 1.5.5 Shitsuke: Sustain
| 1.5.4 Seiketsu: Standardize
The fourth S, Seiketsu, means ‘Standardization’, that is, maintaining one’s workplace so that it is productive and comfortable by repeating Seiri-Seiton-Seiso (Osada, 1991). During this phase of implementation, the team develops the standard operating procedure for establishing the improved workplace practices (Osada, 1991; Chapman, 2005). There is need of uniformity in the fourth element of 5S for establishing and ensuring of standards, to guarantee the tidiness and cleanliness of workplace. The condition of standardized can be attained by Innovation and total visual management (Hubbard, 1999). Visual management has been envisioned as an effective mechanism for continuous improvement because it can play important role in production, quality, safety and customer services by putting up appropriate labels, such as: lubricating oil label, annual inspection label, responsibility label (Ho, 1997). The benefits of Standardization include: low maintenance and overhead cost, loyalty to organization and increase of process efficiency (Sorooshian et al., 2012). 1.5.5 Shitsuke: Sustain The fifth S ‘Shitsuke’ stands for sustaining all the previous S. Japanese believed that self- discipline is most important because it reaches beyond discipline. The fifth S is critical to understand and implement because it requires proactive changes in the behavior of employees at all levels within an organization (Kobayashi et al., 2008). Shitsuke means ingraining the ability of doing things the way they are supposed to be done. It helps and encourages the employees of creating good habits. This element also play important role to make the continuity of daily routine. It is a process of repetition and act as integral part of the safety (Ho, 2010). In this step Downloaded by University of Colorado Boulder At 23:40 17 January 2017 (PT) 10 of 45 there is always a need of practice to maintain the self-discipline in their daily life for 5S system and make habit or culture of it within the organization in order to get benefits such as increase of labor productivity, quality products with no accident at workplace (Patten, 2006; Sorooshian et al., 2012). The success of 5S can be ensured with holistic involvement of management in 5S auditing, feedback on the performance of this technique and encouraging in participating 5S implementation process (Chapman, 2005). The figure 3 represents the flowchart of working process by 5S technique in an organization. tải về 0.69 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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