5-S practice: a new tool for industrial management

It has been recognised that Japanese firms are clean and orderly. The same is true for high quality Western firms. Over the last two decades, the Japanese have formalised the technique and named it as 5-S practice. They believe that it is the base-line for industrial management. As the name is new t...

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Published in:Industrial management + data systems 1998-01, Vol.98 (2), p.55-62
Main Author: Ho, Samuel K.M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audits
Business
Business success
Cleaning
Communities
Governments
Industrial efficiency
Industrial engineering
Industrial management
Management
Methods
Names
Organizational behavior
Productivity
Sports & recreation clubs
Studies
Supermarkets
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
Workshops
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Summary:It has been recognised that Japanese firms are clean and orderly. The same is true for high quality Western firms. Over the last two decades, the Japanese have formalised the technique and named it as 5-S practice. They believe that it is the base-line for industrial management. As the name is new to most Western societies, the objective of this paper is to explain the intricacy of the 5-S so that it can be understood easily and adopted readily by those who may find the tool useful. In Hong Kong, the government industry department has promoted the 5-S practice since 1994. Many seminars and workshops have been conducted and they were all very well received by the business community. As a result of the success, the department invited the author to commission a 5-S practice workbook with ten successful case studies from the manufacturing, services and public sectors. The experience will also be shared in this article.
ISSN:0263-5577
1758-5783
0263-5577
DOI:10.1108/02635579810207726