Occupational health and safety practitioners working in a manufacturing environment may find themselves having to adopt lean production techniques.

When I discovered the '5S' method, I wasn't sure how a workplace system was going to translate into cleaning my home. But, it turns out, it actually suits it incredibly well. Here's how to use this ...

Lean is a learning system that develops capability and adaptability in people and processes. Lean 101 workshops have created ...

The 5S method, like Kanban and Kaizen, comes from Japan, where organizational processes developed in factories and were so useful that their use expanded well beyond Toyota and other manufacturers.

Many of the physical setups and mental tactics we've recommended to banish desktop clutter and the like can be summarized by the 5S methodology. It' ...

The 5S method helps to initiate the change from the bottom-up. 5S is a tool widely known in industrial companies around the world to eliminate waste, organize resources, and keep them well maintained.

Called 5S after its alliterative core tenets—sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain—the methodology originated on the Toyota assembly line, then went on to become a foundational ...