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Implement and Manage 5S and Visual Control

How To

Implement & Manage 5S & Visual Control

Onsite Managerial Seminar

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Training/Kaizen

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816-931-1414

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5S & Visual Control For Work Teams

5S & Visual Control For The Office

Executives and managers learn how to plan, implement and sustain 5S and Visual Control in this seminar. The program also covers benefits and each of the 5S' with emphasis on Sustainment.

It shows how to develop the mindset and necessary cultural change that sustains 5S improvements for years and decades.

Format	Onsite Seminar
Time	1-Day
Cost	$3200.00 (Includes US Travel)
Who Should Attend	Executives Managers Lean Champions

Phone to Schedule: 816-931-1414

Program Outline

1. Introduction To 5S and Visual Control

What It Is (and what it isn't)

Benefits of Implementing 5S

Purpose and Origins of 5S

2. The 5S'

Sort

The 3 Basic Categories

Set-in-Order

Location, Boundaries & Recoil

Shine

Developing Team Participation

Examples - Before and After

Standardize

Sustain

Eight Tools for Sustaining 5S

Who Does What?

Sustaining 5S Through Visual Controls

3. What Is Visual Control?

Visual Control Video & Exercise

4. Implementing & Managing 5S & Visual Control

Kaizen Events

Overcoming Resistance

Five Necessary Conditions

Getting Started and the Core Implementation Team

What Managers Can Do

Keys to Implementing a Successful Program

Typical Program Schedule

5. Corporate Culture & Change

6. Into Action

Participants Will Learn...

How 5S improves the workplace.
Why 5S makes for easier tasks.
Finding the optimum location for each item.
Standardizing work to avoid errors.
How to evaluate a workplace using the 5S Scoresheet.

How visual controls can smooth operations and reduce errors.
The differences between Signs, Signals and Controls and why they are important.
How to manage the cultural changes necessary to sustain 5S improvements.

Indicator

Signal

Control

Visual Controls Guide Behavior

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