Ok, so let’s get started. First up, let’s think about what we are trying to achieve… Room to Organize. Getting organized. Making things work more easily and with less effort. Fixing things so that they stay that way. I’m going to practice what I preach here and start with a small project which will give you a good start while demonstrating the concepts of what we are about. Let’s think about the smallest place in the house – the bathroom.
First the theory. One of the Lean tools that I talked about in my introduction is 5S. 5S is a reference to a set of five words which start with the letter S and are each a stage of the methodology. 5S is a method for organising a workplace, especially a shared workplace such as an office space, and keeping it organised – and come to think of it, isn’t a home a kind of a ‘shared workplace’?. The assertion of 5S is that by assigning everything a location, time is not wasted by looking for things. Other key targets of 5S are workplace morale, team work and efficiency. Different organizations use different versions of the 5S words, but I am going to introduce them to you as Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardise, Sustain.
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