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  • June 1, 2005 at 5:51 pm #39554

    sue
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    Need some help with 5S.
    I am in the service industry and trying to organize our Billing department. The piece I am not very comfortable is the Standardize and Sustain. Does anyone have ideas of audit forms, SOP’s, and could you share?
     
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     Sue

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    June 1, 2005 at 6:05 pm #120531

    Paul Gibbons
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    Sue,
    Buy a copy of
    5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual WorkPlaceHiroyuki Hirano
    For the audit forms.
    For the other part: Think of seiketsu (standardize) as a way of standardising the soft systems and the seiri, seiton and seiso elements as a way of standardising the hard elements. The shitsuke (sustainability) must come from discipline and pride. Don’t push-in your implementation, gain buy-in.
    Hope this helps.
    Paul
     

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    June 1, 2005 at 9:43 pm #120560

    Utah123
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    I think the other areas of LEAN may be more applicable…looking at current state and future state VSM while seeking to reduce waste (7W)…gaining speed and accuracy within a transactional enviroment may be better served using these techniques (which includes 5S). 
    Check out “Learning To See”…great book….simple, straight-forward, and based on waste elimination and thus, increaseing speed and accuracy in the work place…traditional sigma may be too much firepower and 5S not enough…a matter of preference, really….all could be used with effectiveness…. Good luck.

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    June 2, 2005 at 4:02 pm #120597

    sue
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    Thanks

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    June 2, 2005 at 4:14 pm #120598

    sue
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    In this case, the 5S was the part of a physical location move. The future state VSM will be performed.
    Thanks

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