5s for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace

By Productivity Press Development Team

Book Overview

Since its publication, Hiroyuki Hirano's, 5S for Operators continues to be hugely popular, having proven its worth in one company after another. Hirano's five pillars of the visual workplace: sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain are the most fundamental and often overlooked aspects in continuous improvement initiatives. Easy-to-read and apply, each section of the book is loaded with questions, outlines, summaries, diagrams and illustrations. This book provides the foundation that is essential for implementing not just 5S, but overall manufacturing improvements like shorter equipment changeovers, just-in-time inventory, and total quality management and total productive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563271230
• ISBN13: 9781563271236
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Great information

I think this book serves as a great aide for a team looking to implement a 5S program. It is easy to read, follow and comprehend the concepts across all levels of the organization. I especially appreciated the information on coping with resistance to the program. It was good training for my management team and was a good introduction for candid discussions with the employees. Many of the employees felt that the management team "felt their pain" by predicting and understanding that there would be resistance and the mid-managers didn't feel "blindsided" by difficult or unexpected questions. Overall it helped the company to build a win-win approach to implementing our 5S program.

Excellent book for implementing 5S

Very easy reading within a few hours. It covers all the 5S in a simple practical way with excellent examples. Shows a lot of pictures that help visualizing work area before and after 5S. I recommend strongly this book. Eleven plants in the comapny i work for are using it now.

Excellent for floor level

This book is written at the perfect level for floor implmentation. It is a no bones, to the point, with wonderful examples. Very easy reading within a few hours. I will be taking it to my Plant Manager to help convince him of the advantages of 5S.

Operational Excellence Team Member (Allvac)

This book does an outstanding job of conveying the need to start with 5s as the building block of Lean Manufacturing. The material covered is easy to understand and easily conveyed to the employees who are impacted by these practices. I would recommend this book to anyone considering going lean.

Excellent for implementation and study groups

In our plant we used this book to implement 5'S. It is very simple, but thorough. The text is very well structured to highlight the main ideas. We formed a study group with the implementation team and would read and comment it as we worked the particular details of our programs. We quickly saw improvements and are still working on building upon what we learned.