For self improvement

1. KAIZEN – 5 ‘S’EVERYBODY!, EVERYDAY!, EVERYWHERE!
BY MASAAKI IMAI
Jr-Ibabao/ICN

2. WHAT IS KAIZEN 5 ‘S’

3. WHAT IS KAIZEN 5 ‘S’

4. WHAT IS KAIZEN 5 ‘S’
• practice of continuous improvement.
• introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to
Japan’s Competitive Success in 1986.
• Kaizen is recognized worldwide as an important pillar of an organization’s
long-term competitive strategy.

5. WHAT IS KAIZEN 5 ‘S’
• Kaizen is continuous improvement that is based on certain guiding
principles:
• Good processes bring good results
• Go see for yourself to grasp the current situation
• Speak with data, manage by facts
• Take action to contain and correct root causes of problems
• Work as a team
• Kaizen is everybody’s business
• And much more!

6. WHAT IS KAIZEN 5 ‘S’
• Should start from the top management
• They must show commitment
• Determination
• Guidance
• Managers
• Employees
Everybody! Everyday! Everywhere!

7. THE 5 ‘S’
What types of organisations benefit from a 5S program?
• Everyone and all types of business benefit from having a well constructed 5S
program.
• It is usually manufacturing that comes to mind but any type of business from
hospitals to professional services and every area or department within the
organisation will benefit from implementing a 5S program.

8. WHAT EXACTLY DOES 5S STAND
FOR?

9. WHAT EXACTLY DOES 5S STAND FOR?
1. Sort
• Removing all unnecessary items from the workplace
• Identify tools needed to perform
• Red tagging un-needed items
• Specific needed only to perform the task

12. WHAT EXACTLY DOES 5S STAND FOR?
2. Set In Order
• Creating a specific location for everything
• A place for everything and everything in its place
• Taking the needed items from the sort phase and placing
them near or the point of use
• Store to the most used to the least used

14. WHAT EXACTLY DOES 5S STAND FOR?
3. Shine
• Clean the work area
• Aim to clean or restore all equipment or related in the work place
to like new condition
• To notice any changes to the items (e.g oil leaks)
• To identify the sources and eliminate

16. WHAT EXACTLY DOES 5S STAND FOR?
4 Standardise
• Standardise the best practice within the workplace
• Policy and Procedures in place
• To enables workers to see what success looks like
• Helps to align all the practices

18. WHAT EXACTLY DOES 5S STAND FOR?
5 Sustain
• Never slip back into the old ways
• Self discipline, commitment, dedication, consistency
• Continued focus on keeping the changes put in place working
either through managing and enforcing the standards put in place
• Employs the use of scoring system to keep track