In short, the 5S Board is a visual way to implement and sustain the 5S process. Above all, make your own 5S board to show the 5S process in a visual way. Furthermore, break the process down into visual steps. Therefore use you board to assess progress, at a glance.
Make a 5S board to work smarter
Create a 5S board to organise your workspace. Work smarter (literally). Furthermore, increase performance and productivity as a result. Most importantly, create your own board to make ordering your workplace easy. Likewise, bring the team together to assess progress and get results.
Understanding the 5S process
Originating from Japan, this method focuses on five Japanese words. These all start with an ‘S’ hence the “5S” title. Furthermore, these translate as “Sort”, “Set in order”, “Shine”, “Standardise” and “Sustain”.
Track progress and productivity
Achieve results with the 5S process
5S board – support Sort
Firstly, “Sort” refers to assessing all equipment and items in the workspace. In other words, it’s the decluttering phase. Above all, determine if anything needs to be removed, recycled or relocated. Furthermore, take action. Assess and log what action to take on your board.
Firstly, decluttering phase
Secondly, order equipment to cause least waste of time, space and effort
Set in order
Secondly, “Set in order”. That is to say, what is the most logical way of setting out and storing equipment? This requires thinking in terms of space, frequency of use and so on. Ultimately, equipment needs to be ordered in a way that causes least waste of time, space and effort.
Scheduling Shine
Meanwhile, “Shine” refers to cleaning the workspace. It also extends to keeping equipment and machinery in good order. That is to say, planning, scheduling and managing regular maintenance checks. Use your 5S Board to show this procedure in a visual way.
Furthermore, clean and maintain workspace and equipment
Most importantly, make 5S a habit
Standardise the 5S process
Subsequently, “Standardise” means turning the activities of the first 3 Ss into a continuing habit. In other words, create standard operating procedures to maintain an orderly and organised workspace. Most importantly, custom make your very 5S board in support of this. Use it to set and show your 5S standards in way that is immediately clear.
Sustain the 5S habit
Finally, the fifth S is for “Sustain”. In other words, keep up the 5S habit. Make in into a continuing assessment cycle. Above all, adopt it as part of your workplace culture. Use your board to continually assess progress.
Finally, keep the 5S habit going
Utilise a tool shadow to organise your workspace
Further Visual Management ideas that work with your 5S board
Floor markings are useful to organise your workspace. Segregate key areas, or equipment. Furthermore, use them to mark out different areas in a clear way.
Use labels and signs to show key information about equipment. For visual effect, consider colour coding.
Creating your own tool shadow boards orders your workspace and supports Shine.
Examples of our 5S Boards
5S Noticeboard
5S board with document holders
5S Scoreboard
6S audit board
5S dry wipe status
Document holders for visual standards
5S Production board
Red and green status counters
5S board with red and green holders
5S Sustainment board
Signs to support 5S
5S Scoreboard
5S Audit daily tracking pyramid
5S Before & After
Show your 5S visual standards
Signs to support 5S
5S Performance Board
5S Scoreboard
5S Sustainment Status board
Track 5S and Safety
6S Communications
6S visual standards and audit board
6S Board Performance Tracker
Show your 6S visual standards
Update visual standards easily
Triple shift metric
Spell put your 5S vision
Define 5S terms for your team
6S Noticeboard
Track your progress with status meters
6S Communications with dry wipe status
Add card and document holders
Add document holders
Add document holders
6S Performance Tracker
Before & After for 5S
Create a 5S task list
Chart progress with status meters
6S board with status meters
5S Noticeboard for manufacturing
Status meters 5S board
Dry wipe status 5S board
Make 5S visual
Dry wipe updates for 6S
Dry eraze updates for 5S
Use status meters to show 5S progress
5S Sustainment Board
Record 5S progress
5S Audit and Results board
Dy wipe update daily metrics
Status meters provide visual snapshot
Show your 5S audit and visual standard
Show current status with meters
Show status for each 5S metric
Red Tag station board
Triple shift pattern for 5S
Add document holders to your 5S board
Dry wipe status and document holders
Use dry wipe for easy updates
Status meters and dry wipe
Update with dry wipe pens
Use colour in your 5S design
Show your visual standards
Make your 5S board modular
Icons for 5S
Add status dials to your 6S board
Magnetic needle for your status meters
5S on a Kaizen board
6S option
Integrate 5S with Kaizen
Dry wipe status on your 5S board
Magnetic labels for visual status
Manufacturing 5S board
Add document holders to your 5S board
SQD/5S with magnetic status faces
Mark your floor for safety
Works everyday of the month
Instant updates with status dials
Our Approach
We create visual management boards everyday. As a result we have plenty of experience. We work for organisations in food production, the power industry, national rail, pharmaceuticals, education, healthcare, packaging and distribution.
Our team works with a simple idea or sketch and creates a professionally designed layout. This is then turned into a highly functional visual management board.
We offer customised options because we want to create the perfect board for you. So, here are a few examples. We can add magnetic areas or a dry-wipe finish (for use with whiteboard pens). Furthermore, you can choose Red/Green sliders or R.A.G. (Red, Amber, Green) status dials so you can quickly and visually update your board. These are just a few examples of the ways in which our boards can be tailored to meet your needs. You may also be interested in whiteboard overlays that can be used on top of an existing magnetic board.
