This is an excellent short video interview describing the vast benefits of 5s and the Visual Workplace.
- 5s and Visual Management can be a great selling tool.
- Touring a neat, clean, and orderly environment gives a high level of comfort that the people within that organization know what is going on even if the persons touring do not fully comprehend all the intricacies of the operation.
- 5s in the early stages is a transformative process, one that establishes the leadership modeling required to manage and maintain standard work. It is fundamentally the starting spot because it is the simplest of all processes.
- We certainly can’t expect to manage more complex process if we have a hard time putting a broom back where it belongs when done with it.
Loosely paraphrased comments from; Joe Murli