Ten Tips to Help You with Your Kaizen Continuous Improvement Strategy The Kaizen methodology encourages ongoing efforts to ensure continuous improvement throughout a facility. This improvement can come in many forms including waste elimination, improved efficiency, safer work environments, and much more. Simply say that a facility is employing Kaizen strategies, is essentially meaningless if you don’t have any concrete action items you are following. Whether you’re…
Tony Ferraro | September 21, 2015 | Kaizen | 5S, 6S, Continuous Improvement, Facility Efficiency, Kaizen, Six Sigma
Let’s take a moment and go back to the basics. The ‘5S’ system, as it’s called, stands for Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. The system outlines how to go about organizational projects in a way that is efficient and effective both in the short and long term. In this blog post, we’re going to go over each step, but we’re also going to add…
Tony Ferraro | November 13, 2013 | 5S | 5S, 6S, Facility Efficiency, Organized Workplace
There are many benefits associated with the implementation of 5S. Below, we have created a list of the top ten benefits which may result in higher ROI’s (Return on Investment) when 5S is implemented properly. Creates Consistency: When 5S is implemented, consistency is created throughout the workplace. Processes, procedures, tools used, and even levels of cleanliness will be consistent which will lead to a reduction in costs…
Tony Ferraro | November 4, 2013 | 5S | 5S, 6S, Facility Efficiency, Tool Organization
Whether you are laying out your warehouse or plant floor for a 5S or 6S program, or lining it for safety aisles, it is important to buy the best, toughest highest-quality pavement marking tape on the market. Why? Because you don’t want your workers to have to continually replace their floor tape lines every couple of years (or less), resulting in a huge loss of man-hours, tape…
Mike Wilson | September 17, 2012 | Safety Products | 6S, Floor Marking, Forklift Safety, Safety
