Business Excellence Consortium

5S/Visual Enterprise

The BEC is offering a one-day session on 5S/Visual Enterprise. This session is designed for participants to learn why 5S is the foundation of Lean principles. This foundation of employee involvement builds excitement for the change process in your organization. More than just a “quick fix”, proper 5S/Visual Enterprise implementation leads to pride in the work place while sustaining the improvements for cleanliness, organization and safety. The entire 5S/Visual Enterprise process is covered in this session, from initial communication to all employees through implementation and process auditing. 

Pre-requisite: Overview of Lean must be taken prior to attending 5S/Visual Enterprise

5S/Visual Enterprise Content Includes:

• 5S, Paving the Approach to World Class Health Care
• Where 5S Applies in Health Care
• How 5S Improves the Health Care Workplace
• Origin of the 5S’s
• Definition and Application of
• Sort
• Straighten/Set in Order
• Sweep/Shine
• Schedule/Standardize
• Sustain
• Visual Controls & Goal Measurement Boards
• 5S Health Care Simulation

• Define the five S's
• Describe how 5S activities are linked to bottom line measurements
• Use visual signals to speed the decision making process

The Business Excellence Consortium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering has partnered with WCM Associates, a consulting and book publishing company, dedicated to the dissemination and the implementation of advanced techniques of world class manufacturing. This partnership combines real world experience with a proven method of knowledge transfer resulting in high impact training and implementation support!