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What (who) is 5S (methodology) - definition
![[[Shadow board]] (with tools' outline) and worker's movement that is being used in production floor](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Papan Bayangan (Shadow Board).jpg?width=200 "[[Shadow board]] (with tools' outline) and worker's movement that is being used in production floor")
![5S resource corner at Scanfil Poland factory in [[Sieradz]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Resource corner 5S Safety Scanfil Sieradz.jpg?width=200 "5S resource corner at Scanfil Poland factory in [[Sieradz]].")
![The scheme "Correct Arrangement of the Tool" from a [[USSR]] [[Central Institute of Labour]] instruction sheet, 1920–1924.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The scheme "Correct Arrangement of the Tool", CIT, Russia, 1920-1924.png?width=200 "The scheme \"Correct Arrangement of the Tool\" from a [[USSR]] [[Central Institute of Labour]] instruction sheet, 1920–1924.")
![The methodology underlying a type of [[DNA sequencing]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/STARR-seq Methodology.jpg?width=200 "The methodology underlying a type of [[DNA sequencing]].")
Wikipedia
5S is a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri (整理), seiton (整頓), seisō (清掃), seiketsu (清潔), and shitsuke (躾). These have been translated as 'sort', 'set in order', 'shine', 'standardize', and 'sustain'. The list describes how to organize a work space for efficiency and effectiveness by identifying and storing the items used, maintaining the area and items, and sustaining the new organizational system. The decision-making process usually comes from a dialogue about standardization, which builds understanding among employees of how they should do the work.
In some quarters, 5S has become 6S, the sixth element being safety (safe).
Other than a specific stand-alone methodology, 5S is frequently viewed as an element of a broader construct known as visual control, visual workplace, or visual factory. Under those (and similar) terminologies, Western companies were applying underlying concepts of 5S before publication, in English, of the formal 5S methodology. For example, a workplace-organization photo from Tennant Company (a Minneapolis-based manufacturer) quite similar to the one accompanying this article appeared in a manufacturing-management book in 1986.
