[.ca] 5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace (ISBN 1563271230)

Very Practical Working Tool:
This book gets to the nitty-gritty with a well laid out process to follow and brief, yet meaningful, examples of what to do and why. Great for all levels of employees to read and it only takes about 1 hour to get through.

Operational Excellence Team Member (Allvac):
This book does an outstanding job of conveying the need to start with 5s as the building block of Lean Manufacturing. The material covered is easy to understand and easily conveyed to the employees who are impacted by these practices. I would recommend this book to anyone considering going lean.

Just about touches the "5 S's"....Not detailed enough:
I wonder if workers on a shop floor would actually like to sit down and read this book. This touches the 5S's (Organization, Orderliness, Cleanliness, Organized cleanup, and Discipline), but does not give a detailed description of how one is to implement this tool. I recommend another book "5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace", to have a more detailed description of the 5S's. Effective implementation of this tool requires very high participation from senior management to make important decisions. I think workers will not be in a position to implement this tool, and so this book is not very useful.

Excellent for implementation and study groups:
In our plant we used this book to implement 5'S. It is very simple, but thorough. The text is very well structured to highlight the main ideas. We formed a study group with the implementation team and would read and comment it as we worked the particular details of our programs. We quickly saw improvements and are still working on building upon what we learned.

5S FOR OPERATORS: 5 PILLARS OF THE VISUAL WORKPLACE:
THE BOOK IS VERY HELPFUL SPECIALY IN MANUFACTURING. PEOPLE CAN NOW EASILY UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANT OF CLEANLINESS, ORDERLINESS AND DISCIPLINE IN THE WORK AREA THUS CLEANLINESS IS NOT JANITORS RESPONSIBILITY BUT EVERYBODY.