5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to
Eliminate Waste
Authors: Thomas A. Fabrizio, Don Tapping
Although office and administrative activities are usually 60% of the
production costs in most manufacturing organizations, these areas often get
excluded during Lean initiatives. To achieve Lean, office activities must
fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The
adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the
first step to increase efficiency.
In 5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste, Tom
Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System -- effective
tools for the elimination of waste on the shop floor -- into the office
environment. The activities at the heart of 5S for the Office (organizing,
ordering, cleaning, standardizing, and sustaining all of these) are
completely logical. They are the basic rules for managing any effective
workplace. However, it is the systematic method with which the 5S system
approaches these activities that makes it unique.
This book is a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for your office,
and:
Provides detailed step-by-step implementation on how to apply 5S to your
office activities.
Includes forms, worksheets, and photos that will allow you to "see" the
value of 5S, thereby increasing sustained support of the implementation. The
accompanying CD contains blank versions of many of the worksheets that
appear throughout the book. The worksheets on the CD, however, are
interactive - the user can electronically enter and save information right
on the particular form.
Can be used as a training and implementation manual.
Readers of this book can immediately apply the concepts of 5S to their
office and administrative activities, resulting in the elimination of waste,
reduced production costs, and increased profits.
