5S Practical guide to improve quality and productivity

Book excerpt: Has your business or the company you work for faced problems such as: delays in product deliveries, errors in production processes, accidents, and dirty and disorganized work areas? Did you know that the secret of having a productive business is in the cleanliness and order with which you work? The 5S process in action. The Japanese methodology to improve the quality and productivity of any type of company shows the system with which your company will achieve a high degree of performance. By implementing the 5S process, your company will notice great benefits based on simple, practical and economic concepts with which you will be able to maintain an organized, clean, safe and above all productive workplace. In this book you will find the basics and a clear understanding of the easiest way to apply the process and its key principles. In addition, you will be able to have access via Internet to a software that works in MS Excel so that you can take complete control of your project through improvement events; You can record your activities, resources, personnel involved and obtain useful reports for monitoring, evaluation in audits and results of your implementation.