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1. Visual Management & 5S
Better Understand Visual Management & The 5S Technique

2. What is Visual Management?
• Being able to look at any given process and know the
status of the operation

3. The Goals of Visual Management
• The ability to identify, at a glance, how well an area is
operating to its:
• Goals
• Status of production
• Problem solving effectiveness
Anybody should be able to walk up to ANY cell/work
area and immediately know what is going on.

4. 5S: Workplace Organization
• An organized workplace can have a major impact on
productivity
• How much time is lost:
• Looking for supplies, parts, forms, etc?
• What about looking for electronic files?

5. What is 5S?
• A way to improve the workplace organization
• Can be done as a stand-alone effort
• Builds in the controls to keep the space neat &
efficient

6. Why Use 5S?
• Clean it and create a
system to sustain
orderliness!
• How much time is
Wasted finding things?

7. Steps of 5S
1. Sort (Seiri)
2. Set In Order (Seiton)
3. Shine (Seiso)
4. Standardize (Seiketsu)
5. Sustain (Shitsuke)

8. • Determine what space you will
be investigating
• Involve people in the area (they
own it)
• Take pictures of the current
state
• Post the current state pictures
to capture the baseline
condition
See the “Current State”

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