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News Lean Study tour to Japan We are welcoming the following new customers for our 5S training package: Royal FrieslandCampina, Draka Telecom Solutions, Hansen + Rosenthal, IFF (International Flavors and Fragrances), Stork Fokker Elmo. Photos from the information meeting at Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklifts Europe Photos from the 5S User Group Meeting at IFF in Tilburg |
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5S workplace organisation and standardisationNew: 5S training method5S training package with internet videos, facilitator manual and specific examples for workplace organisation and standardisation! Now available in English, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. This training material has been produced in co operation with Philips Electronics, Smit Transformers, Nacco Materials Handling Group, Minkels and Timmerije (injection molding). The 5S method improves employees' ownership and leads to substantial quality improvement, cost reduction as well as product and process safety. You can get an impression by clicking on the image or link. The file size is 10 MB. In case your browser does not automatically start your media player, you can download this file by right clicking the mouse and select: "save file". You can then play the file from your computer. "This training package has helped us enormously to implement 5S in a structural way, as well as getting our operators and management team behind it. The teams themselves are now taking the initiative." Fred Waij, TPM manager, Heineken Breweries. 5S Introduction The 5S method is a structured program to implement workplace organisation and standardisation. 5S improves safety, work efficiency, improves productivity and establishes a sense of ownership. And a well organised workplace motivates people. Many companies apply techniques like Just In Time (JIT) production, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or Total Quality Management (TQM) to realise and maintain the high standards their customers demand. And 5S is one of these techniques, the steps for systematic workplace organisation and standardisation. The programme is called 5S, since all steps start with an "S".
Sort deals with the contents of a workplace, and removes all items that are not needed there.
determining what is needed, and where it is needed. defining the appropriate location for tools and other materials. maintaining these standards.
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