Lean 5S Workspace Organization & Auditing

Your journey of reducing waste, optimizing processes, and engaging your team starts here. 5S is the time-tested, proven method of workspace organization developed in Japan over 70 years ago. It is a simplistic, universal approach to creating a visual workplace that will distinguish your plant from the competition. 5S is cheap to implement and yields many rewards: lower cost, higher quality, and shorter lead times.

Whether you are a lean sensei who is continuously learning, or a beginner new to the world of lean manufacturing, this course is for you. While basic knowledge of lean is helpful, ultimately there are no prerequisites. The course is ideal for lean practitioners, operations managers, line supervisors, business leaders, and quality professionals alike who want to set a lean example. A robust 5S program will improve safety in the plant, satisfy your customers, impress your management team, and gain respect from your direct reports. There are no reasons not to be doing 5S.

This course is a comprehensive review of the 5S methodology. At the end of this fun and engaging course, you will successfully:

• Learn the origins and history of 5S from Japan and the automotive industry,

• Understand the purpose and role that 5S plays in a lean environment,

• Grasp the five principles of workspace organization with real-world manufacturing examples, and

• Develop a 5S auditing program to lock in the gains.

The instructor is an independent lean manufacturing consultant with over five years of experience implementing the Toyota Production System in a range of manufacturing environments. Notably, this includes machining, fabrication, casting, extrusion, stamping, final assembly, aseptic manufacturing, packaging, electronics manufacturing, and inventory management. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering.