The 5S Numbers Game is an easy-to-facilitate simulation that clearly and quickly demonstrates the power of workplace organization. Through this simulation, your staff will understand how workplace clutter, information clutter and daily obstacles affects their ability to perform their job efficiently.
Teams progress from the "agony of defeat" in the beginning of the exercise to the "joy of success" at the end. Your staff will experience the emotional roller coaster caused by unnecessary obstacles; no wonder they feel exhausted and frustrated at the end of the day. Now they can change that. Once they complete this exercise, ask them where they want to focus their efforts to organize first. Always measure the "Before" and the "After" in simple units of time, footsteps, bending, trips, de-gowning, quantity, etc. They will see the immediate impact of their improvements; challenge them where they want to focus next... |
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Visual Control Legend (MGH 2014) In a collaboration with the Art Institute of Boston, MGH challenged designers to develop a visual lexicon to help staff and customers understand what is expected of them 24 hours a day. This system makes the workplace intuitive and helps the multi-lingual investigators by answering questions before they are asked.
Lean allows us to shamelessly steal from each other. Variations of this system has been adopted by vivaria around the world. |
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The Visual Workplace at McGill University (2016 Jarrod Nichol CLSSBB)
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics clearly demonstrate that as worker's productive decline, unit labor costs rise by significant factors. http://www.bls.gov/lpc/ Lost worker productivity has a direct correlation to employee morale and a poorly designed workplace. The Lean community estimates that worker value-added activity can be as low as 5% in an organization that does not support the work! In this video, Lean Sensei Jarrod Nichol walks us through the steps that develop workplace organization and the social contracts that support the work in a vivarium. |
Way too complex? (we know)
This is a sample worksheet that helps define the criteria and to train the eye to "see" what a highly-organized and intuitive workplace could look like. Perfection is the enemy of the good; we don't advocate for perfection, only the deeper understanding that the 5S questions prompt. Understanding "why" each level is important enables your team to see the advantages of applying 5S to everything. ![]()
A Simpler Worksheet for Scoring 5S Workplace Organization
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The Visual Workplace and Workplace Organization in the Vivarium at McGill University (2016 Jarrod Nichol CLSSB)
5S Training Module (2014 Murli & Associates)
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