Deploying a 5S approach
Context and rationale
Improving organisation and operations for greater productivity is a crucial issue for manufacturers. To achieve this, companies turn to the Lean Manufacturing method. Several Lean Management tools then help improve the efficiency of their activity. One of these tools is the 5S method.
Establishing a 5S culture in your company means establishing a new long-term philosophy that produces good results through good processes. Above all, it helps the company continuously solve the problems it encounters in the course of its activity.
This course will enable you to deploy a 5S approach and integrate KAIZEN tools.
Training objectives
- Mastering the fundamentals of the 5S approach by mastering its basic principles.
- Adopting the 5S method as a management tool serving performance, risk control and continuous improvement.
- Understanding the challenges and objectives of a 5S approach for a company.
- Deploying the 5S approach within the company by implementing it in a pilot area.
- Taking part in your company's continuous improvement by mastering the keys to setting up a 5S project.
Training content
Fundamentals of Lean Management
- The Lean house: what is the Lean approach?
- The concept of added value and non-added value (Muda).
- Understanding how Kaizen works, its spirit and its approach.
- Key success factors.
- Those involved in the approach.
Organising and preparing a 5S project
- Project constraints.
- Mapping the workshop.
- Preparation and arrangements.
- People to involve.
- 5S working groups.
- Conditions for success.
- Risks of failure.
The 5S method, standards and the principle of visual management
- Understanding the 5 actions of the 5S method: SEIRI: clearing out; SEITON: tidying; SEISO: cleaning; SEIKETSU: order; SHITSUKE: discipline.
- Why integrate 5S into your company?
- Identifying the different areas of application of the 5S approach
- How the 5S method unfolds in your company (factory, industry, warehouse or office).
- Focus on efficiency at the workstation.
- Focus on the concept of visual management with 5S.
Implementing and steering a 5S project
- Planning, communication and the associated board.
- Setting up a Lean system and a 5S project (implementation stages): major clear-out; structuring the stages as a worksite project; clearing out, tidying, cleaning, standardising; establishing a new reference state; rules of conduct; setting the rules for a new reference state; spotting points of drift.
- Identifying the different stages and the follow-up of a 5S project.
- Understanding the role and tasks of each person involved in the 5S approach.
- Sustaining and maintaining the company's 5S momentum.
- Outline of the 5S audit tool.
Moving from 5S to continuous improvement
- Steering and managing 5S.
- 5S audits, managing the rules.
- Building on 5S for continuous improvement.
- Suggestion system.
- Towards visual management for continuous improvement.
Practice in the field
- Practical application on a pilot 5S project at the client's site, duration according to the chosen project.
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