5s Effectiveness

Hello. 5S is part of Six Sigma training.

Question : How important 5S to the succees of a project ?

My understanding is 5S is critical to people who deal a lot with tooling to do setup or places like garage and  store room. Good 5S practice will allow high efficiency for tasks to be carried out.

However, my observation tells me many organizations mis-used 5S.

All people are trained in 5S. Enforcement happen to all people, places and departments. Every engineer is responsible to certain areas to the extent that no dust is allowed. I am questioning on the bottom line results ($$) with this type of enforcement. Couldn't we use engineers for more value added job to contribute to bottom line of a company ?

Your comments please.