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ISBN-10: 1-56327-318-7
ISBN-13: 9781563273186
Publisher: Productivity Press
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Year: July 21, 2006
Size: 21.34 x 26.92 x 1.52cm
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 499gr
Binding: paperback
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Business & Investing
Industries & ProfessionsMISManagement & LeadershipManagementProduction & OperationsQuality ControlOrganizational BehaviorWorkplaceSkillsOffice AutomationProfessional & TechnicalEngineeringIndustrial, Manufacturing & Operational SystemsProduction, Operation & Managementdescription
Although office and administrative activities are usually 60% of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations, these areas often get excluded during Lean initiatives. To achieve Lean, office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency.
In 5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste, Tom Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System –- effective tools for the elimination of waste on the shop floor –- into the office environment. The activities at the heart of 5S for the Office (organizing, ordering, cleaning, standardizing, and sustaining all of these) are completely logical. They are the basic rules for managing any effective workplace. However, it is the systematic method with which the 5S system approaches these activities that makes it unique.
This book is a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for your office, and:
Provides detailed step-by-step implementation on how to apply 5S to your office activities. Includes forms, worksheets, and photos that will allow you to »see« the value of 5S, thereby increasing sustained support of the implementation. The accompanying CD contains blank versions of many of the worksheets that appear throughout the book. The worksheets on the CD, however, are interactive – the user can electronically enter and save information right on the particular form. Can be used as a training and implementation manual.
Readers of this book can immediately apply the concepts of 5S to their office and administrative activities, resulting in the elimination of waste, reduced production costs, and increased profits.
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I found this book the most helpful when I implemented 5S in our customer service department. We followed it step-by-step and had great results. Now, every department is benchmarking us and beginning to see that 5S is such a fundamental tool to begin with. 5 stars to the authors!
Being a staff working for a Kaizen Company Toyota, Kaizen was so clear to me, yet through this book I have learned how The 5S can be implemented at administrative jobs Lean Office Demystified
After going through a typical 5S/Lean orientation at work, I became frustrated that all of the examples of how to implement the system were geared towards manufacturing and warehouse work. I couldn't understand why the typical office worker should care about 5S or Lean. Needless to say, its implementation in my department languished … until I read »5S for the Office.« The authors clearly demonstrate how to apply 5S/Lean principles to any office setting, and, most importantly, provide a CD-ROM with sample forms for companies to use. The authors also anticipate employee reluctance to change, and lay out strategies for rolling out 5S/Lean from the top down.
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