Customer Reviews

5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace (For Your Organization!)

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This book is layed out in a basic, easy to use format that makes it effective for shop use. I found it more appropriate than several other publications for use with my mixed management/hourly implementation team.

This book gets to the nitty-gritty with a well laid out process to follow and brief, yet meaningful, examples of what to do and why. Great for all levels of employees to read and it only takes about 1 hour to get through.

This book does an outstanding job of conveying the need to start with 5s as the building block of Lean Manufacturing. The material covered is easy to understand and easily conveyed to the employees who are impacted by these practices. I would recommend this book to anyone considering going lean.

I wonder if workers on a shop floor would actually like to sit down and read this book. This touches the 5S's (Organization, Orderliness, Cleanliness, Organized cleanup, and Discipline), but does not give a detailed description of how one is to implement this tool. I recommend another book "5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace", to have a more detailed description of the 5S's.

Effective implementation of this tool requires very high participation from senior management to make important decisions. I think workers will not be in a position to implement this tool, and so this book is not very useful.

Just finished reading this book. The author states this book is written for the shop floor employees. I think that some of your shop floor employees would benefit from the book, but most would put it down after the first few pages. Technically, it's not difficult to read - the employees that are dedicated to their job would find it useful. Those less dedicated would need this broken down further - more ideas on ways to implement 5S - before they would buy in to the program.

I think that employees tasked with implementation of 5S would find the information in this book to be useful - especially if their work setting is a product company that produces a finite number of different products. Job shops would find the information here a little thin. That will be my next search - to find a 5S book that specializes in 5S for job shop environments, where no standard product exists.

Disapointing. Here we have a $25 book with 120 pages, probably at least 100 of which could be eliminated. The book is wordy, vague and full of meaningless examples and ambiguous statements. Don't waste your money.

THE BOOK IS VERY HELPFUL SPECIALY IN MANUFACTURING. PEOPLE CAN NOW EASILY UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANT OF CLEANLINESS, ORDERLINESS AND DISCIPLINE IN THE WORK AREA THUS CLEANLINESS IS NOT JANITORS RESPONSIBILITY BUT EVERYBODY.

Very easy reading within a few hours. It covers all the 5S in a simple practical way with excellent examples. Shows a lot of pictures that help visualizing work area before and after 5S. I recommend strongly this book. Eleven plants in the comapny i work for are using it now.

This book is a great informational tool to get the ideas of the Five S concept into your employees. It is an easy read and doesn't heavily focus on how to implement these ideas but rather what to look for to help you implement Five S.

5S for the operators is a book that you can give to your Operations team where they can read and implement fast. It is written in a plain language where anyone can understand. Overall, I would recommend this book.