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5S/6S is a tool to make an orderly and clean company, this is used on the work floor as well as the warehouse as the offices. A clean and orderly company will get a lot of advantages in time. Everything will be more structurally and orderly, which leads to a raise in productivity. Besides this the company will have a good professional appearance to costumers.

When to use

5S/6S is used at the end of the β-phase and maintained during the mass production phase.5S/6S  is used:

·                                 to improve the quality of production

·                                 to give the company a good professional appearance

·                                 to give a comapany more structure

Description

6S makes a company in six simple steps orderly and clean and more important keep it that way. The six steps of 6S are: 

 S1: Seiri  Sorting of unnecessary parts S4: Seiketsu Keep it clean and orderly
 S2: Seiton Arranging the unnecessary parts  S5: Shitsuke Discipline
 S3: Seisô  Cleaning S6: Shûkan Habit