From the course: Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to Continuous Improvement (Blinkist Summary)

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The 5S of workplace organization

The 5S of workplace organization

From the course: Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to Continuous Improvement (Blinkist Summary)

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The 5S of workplace organization

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- [Instructor] Blink number four, self-discipline allows workplaces to create and sustain efficiency. Self-discipline plays a key role in Japanese culture, especially in the workplace. The workplace, gemba, is where value is generated. Kaizen philosophy influence five powerful practices that use self-discipline to keep the gemba streamlined. These are the five Ss. The first of the five Ss of proper workplace organization is seiri, which means to sort out all unnecessary items from the gemba. It's a popular Kaizen technique in which a leader will walk through the gemba and mark everything that's not essential with red tape. Next, the workers have the opportunity to object to any labeling and prove that a tagged item is necessary. After that, all items still tagged will be removed. After seiri comes seiton, which means to straighten things out. All necessary items, maintain an orderly place so that everyone knows where…

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