Abstract
5S is one of the important industrial engineering techniques to obtain workplace organization and efficiency enhancement. This paper reports a case study on implementation of 5S in a factory facility of a valve manufacturing company. The aim behind implementing 5S is to improve the productivity and efficiency by reducing the factory chaos, reducing the tool and material search time, and arranging the workplace for a better visibility of the machines, equipment, and items. Audit checklists, workplace pictures, and time study have been used to analyse the effect of 5S implementation. A strategic 5S implementation in this work resulted in much better workplace organization; improved visibility, appearance, and orderliness of objects; and significant reduction in the time to search or access tools.
Highlights
Workplace organization is one of the prime areas of concern in industrial engineering and management
The time study method was used on specific persons within the machine floor to investigate how much time was consumed in order to move around and search for tools, in worst case scenarios, operators had to borrow tools from other operators
This paper reported a case study on implementation of 5S in a facility of a valve manufacturing company
Summary
Workplace organization is one of the prime areas of concern in industrial engineering and management. Several strategies and techniques have been worked out to achieve sustainability in industries by a better and proper workplace organization. The Japanese technique 5S is one of such techniques that is used more or less used in every industry and company [1]. 5S is a group of five Ss used for a better workplace organization This technique is often misunderstood as a cleaning technique for shop floors and workshops. The 5S practice has commonly being used in many of the companies across the globe with the purpose of enhancing productivity and capability [4,5,6,7]
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