No sustainability phenomenon

Every time we start to work on 5S it is understood (at least in the beginning) that we start to clean our area. What’s moreover, people have it so deeply stucked in their mind that sometime they don’t even try to listen about real purpose of 5S. Probably it is somhow connected with our culture not to listen “when I know better then you”.

Nevertheless first step is usually to clean the area, then they started to think what we really need (sort) and how we can handle this in future. During first 5S session I’ve never met a team, who thought about more than 3S. We think about current status rather then future, especially if we talk about not our own company but the company we are hired in. Let’s think about how we behave at home. What do you do to sustain changes you’ve made ? I usually try (if this is possible) to prepare poke-yoke. It prevents me from making the same mistakes in the future. Always I try to convince my audience to do the same. If you need some practical examples – go to IKEA

First headline of this post was at the beginning “5S phenomenon” … but I changed it to “No sustainability phenomenon”. I think we need to still learn a lot to think in “5S mode”, which in most cases means “think about the future”

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