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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...