Five S Program
Sweep (Regular Cleaning)
Step Three: Once you
have everything, from each individual work area
up to your entire facility, sorted (cleaned up)
and organized, you need to keep it that way. This
requires regular cleaning, or to go along with
our third S, "shining" things up.
Regular, usually daily, cleaning is needed
or everything will return to the way it was. This
could also be thought of as inspecting. While
cleaning it's easy to also inspect the machines,
tools, equipment and supplies you work with.
Regular cleaning and inspection makes it
easy to spot lubricant leaks, equipment misalignment,
breakage, missing tools and low levels of supplies.
Problems can be identified and fixed when they
are small. If these minor problems are not addressed
while small, they could lead to equipment failure,
unplanned outages or long - unproductive - waits
while new supplies are delivered.
When done on a regular, frequent basis, cleaning and
inspecting generally will not take a lot of time, and
in the long run will most likely save time.
The Other Five S's: Sort
| Set In Order
| Shine | Standardize
| Sustain
Introduction to the Five
S System
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