Business Excellence Consortium

5S Visual Enterprise Event

Improving cleanliness, organization and safety in your workplace!

This 3 to 5 day hands-on 5S/Visual Enterprise event is a proven way to implement this world class tool in any organization. A designated team, facilitated by an experienced lean expert, properly implements 5S/Visual Enterprise by using a 15 step kaizen process. Proper 5S/Visual Enterprise implementation leads to increased pride in the work place while sustaining the improvements for cleanliness, organization and safety. While this event is focused on obtaining results, it also provides an excellent environment for participants to learn from an expert about 5S/Visual Enterprise as well as other world class tools. This allows the participants to gain valuable hands on experience and confidence for facilitating or participating in future improvement events.

This event includes:

• Event preparation, defining the scope and goals of the event
• Everyone will clearly understand the desired objectives
• Team training includes: What 5S is, the nine rules of 5S implementation, keys to long-term 5S success, application of visual enterprise, using visual standards for everyone, decision-making at a glance and typical examples of visual management
• The actual Kaizen Event
• The team will follow a structured process to achieve and sustain improvements in a working environment
• “Report out” to management on the results of the Event
• Event Follow-up

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Report the results achieved from the event
• Understand how 5S/Visual Enterprise applies to every organization
• Understand the 15 steps for conducting a Kaizen event
• Qualify for credit for the Lean Master Facilitator 5S/Visual Enterprise class