The Manufacturing Team at Burns Engineering continues it’s quest for continuous improvement. Here’s a link to the previous post.
Over the last year we’ve been applying the 5S principles (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain) in several areas of production. We now have set of tools that are color-coded and several with homes on shadow boards. Our inventory is organized on labeled shelves and the group has adopted a culture that leverages every moment of slack time for cleaning and important preventive maintenance.
We’ve made good progress, Graph of Results, yet we’re not resting on our laurels. 5S is a key tool for continuous improvement at Burns and we’ll continue to audit the machine shop and springboard their successes into other departments.
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Richard
Manufacturing Engineer & 5S / Kaizen facilitator
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm:
Wow, what great results. Along with the benefit of reducing waste these projects are a wonderful opportunity to work together in teams. It’s great to see all the progress being made!