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total quality management, total productive maintenance, quick changeover, pull scheduling and
value stream mapping etc. (Pojasek, 2003).
From the time of technical missions in Japan in 1984, ‘Housekeeping’ was the better
technique that greatly affected the organizational quest towards continuous improvement. Later it
turned out to be a movement in Japanese companies towards 5S program.
The Japanese
organizations discovered that it was not possible to develop well defined properly implemented
operational procedures, other innovations to improve working conditions and to produce quality
products without 5S program. After thoroughly analyzing of Japan’s development in quality and
productivity, 5S was usually first step for several improvements program and considered as base
of the quality pyramid by the other countries (Mendes-de-Toledo and Andde-Farias-Filho, 2001).
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