5S ADVANTAGES
There are 2 main reasons to apply the 5S:
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- Applying the 5S gives confidence to your prospects and customers.
- Applying the 5S allows to reduce waste.
But the application of the 5S offers many other advantages...
Trust
All these positive signs, wich will be noticed during the first visit to your company, will lead your prospects and customers to you.
The 5S workshops and trainings are a very powerful tool at the service of a Winning Market.
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Which company would you like to work with?
Are you asking yourself to which yours looks like...
Waste
Well-organized workstations help reducing displacements, handling and useless actions that only increase the waste of time.
Rigor is an important factor that each person in the company should have in mind to respect and improve the procedures. This will lead to a dramatic reduction of scraps and corrections. In other words, it helps to prevent any kind of waste and save useless costs.
A nice working environment increases helpers' motivation and develops their will to progress. Is in this context where the improvement ideas are ready to be born.
The 5S workshops and offices are a very powerful tool to reduce costs.
A sales growth combined to a cost reduction of each product that has been sold, will increase the profits: CQFD.
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But also...
The best is still to come :
Making profits is the result of a 5S application and this application process produces a lot of other advantages.
Applying the 5S:
- Improves the safety of people, equipments and their environment thanks to a better organizations and the respect of simple rules which have been established and validated by those who have to apply them,
- Improves the motivation of the members of your staff, who will « feel much better » in a nice working environment,
- In a clean and organized workplace, where communication is facilitated by visual standards; the stress diminishes, motivation increases and improvement ideas are emitted
- Improves the equipments thanks to handling operations that have been clearly defined, attributed and implemented.
- Develops a rigorous mind. From those objects that make part of each persons daily life, the state of mind changes to a more open one and the respect for the other person and the environment grows as well as the desire to improve.
- Allows open minds to facilitate the change and the acquisition of other tools or processes like the Total Productive Maintenance, the improvement of flows, Auto-quality, >
To apply the 5S is actually to build strong basis for a «Lean Manufacturing» process.
The AL-Consulting team of consultants have a vast experience gained thanks to all the 5S workshops implemented through the years. They commit themselves to give you through this website the most pertinent and complete information to apply them with success within your own company.
The pages you are reading at this moment are totally dedicated to the 5S and its application modalities. The key words are simplicity, accessibility, clearness, so that in the shortest possible time you will:
- Obtain a good knowledge of the 5S
- Decide to apply them in your Company, department or service,
- Have the best price for all the means (tools, advises, tips, examples) to succeed in their application