Following 5S, the Japanese business efficiency and quality management strategy, is easy once you know the steps. They're easy to remember: "Sort" to consider everything in your work environment, "Straighten" to remove everything which is unnecessary, "Sweep" to organize what remains and understand what it is and why it is there, "Sustain" to keep the progress you've made intact, and looking inward to one's "Self" to internalize all that you've done and learned. Once you've taken these steps, it's easy to maintain your momentum and extend it to other facets of your work and life. QMS2GO is a new software solution for building quality management systems, and includes the ability to design your company's personalized system to feature best practices like 5S. Reach out to us today to learn how you can incorporate the world's best quality strategies tools into your QMS. https://qms2go.com/
Watch The 5 Steps of 5S — a free video from the QMS2GO Learning Hub for quality managers, internal auditors, and manufacturing leaders working with ISO 9001 quality management systems. Every video in the hub is produced by the QMS2GO quality team and is free to view without signup.
Certification and surveillance audits sample records, not intentions. This video is most useful when you map what it describes onto the documented information you already produce — procedures, approvals, corrective actions, calibration and training records — and close whichever of those is thin before the next audit cycle.
Most quality teams get the most value by treating each video as a working session rather than passive background. Note the ISO 9001 clauses referenced, compare what is described against how your own organization currently handles that requirement, and write down the gap. Where the gap is a missing record, a missing owner, or a process that lives only in someone's head, that is exactly what a certification or surveillance auditor will find first. Share the video with process owners and supervisors so quality ownership is not concentrated in one person.
Quality managers building or inheriting an ISO 9001 quality management system, internal auditors preparing an audit program to ISO 19011, consultants supporting multiple client sites, production and operations leaders who own corrective actions, and executives who need a plain-language view of how quality performance connects to on-time delivery, scrap, rework, and customer complaints. No prior auditor training is assumed, and every video in the hub is free to view without signup or a credit card.
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Following 5S, the Japanese business efficiency and quality management strategy, is easy once you know the steps. They're easy to remember: "Sort" to consider everything in your work environment, "Straighten" to remove everything which is unnecessary, "Sweep" to organize what remains and understand what it is and why it is there, "Sustain" to keep the progress you've made intact, and looking inward to one's "Self" to internalize all that you've done and learned. Once you've taken these steps, it's easy to maintain your momentum and extend it to other facets of your work and life. QMS2GO is a new software solution for building quality management systems, and includes the ability to design your company's personalized system to feature best practices like 5S. Reach out to us today to learn how you can incorporate the world's best quality strategies tools into your QMS. https://qms2go.com/