Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path toward a "5S" workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology as part of continuous improvement or lean manufacturing processes. 5S is ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- FMX Leonard Wood organization is one of the sites in the Fleet Management Expansion (FMX) Directorate, part of the Field Support Operations Directorate in the Integrated ...

The factory was incredibly clean. This maquiladora in northern Mexico was machining and assembling oil pumps, normally a very dirty process. Powered conveyor lines moved products from station to ...

Those of you grew up with Sesame Street may recall that each episode was brought to you by a different letter of the alphabet. I experienced my own version of this phenomenon three years ago, when ...

CHICAGO — During recent visits to bakery and snack production facilities, I noticed that more of them seem to be successfully implementing a 5S program. The five S’s are to sort, set in order, shine, ...

No, 5s doesn’t refer to the new gotta-have-it iPhone. It’s a system for making the workplace a safer place to be. The “5s” concept focuses on eliminating all unnecessary things from the workplace so ...

Alpha Software announces its mobile app to digitize 5S audits, providing operations managers with real-time compliance data. Built on the Alpha TransForm no-code platform, the app functions offline, ...