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Quick Look Course Summary:5S Training
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  • Length: 2 day(s)

  • Price (at your venue): 1 Person R 8,761 EX VAT 3 Person R 6,937 EX VAT 10 Person R 5,067 EX VAT

  • Certification Type:Non-Accredited

  • Locations & Venues: Off-site or in-house. We train in all major city centres throughout South Africa.

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    5S Training Course: Unleashing the Power of Efficiency

    Duration: 2 days

    Introduction

    5S is much more than ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’. It comprises five principles to make people highly efficient and effective in their work. The purpose is to help people do perfect work every time, preventing mistakes, ensuring reliable equipment, removing useless variation, delivering quality products quickly, and maintaining safety.

    Course Outline

    Important Lean Concepts

    • The 7 Wastes and Others
    • The Value Stream Concept
    • The Hidden Factory
    • Elimination of Waste and Loss with 5S
    • Our 5S Training Objectives

    Purpose of 5S

    • 5S Creates a Visual Factory
    • The 5S Cycle
    • 5S Activities Explained
    • The Purpose and Payoff of 5S
    • Remove the Roadblocks in the Way
    • 5S Program Overview

    5S Program Steps

    • Workplace Observation
    • Set a Target Area Vision
    • The Power of a Shared Vision
    • What You See Before 5S
    • What You See After 5S
    • After 5S – Easy to Find, Easy to Do
    • One-Day Work Area Log

    Sort

    • Sort – keep only what is needed Today
    • Red Tag Process
    • Red Tag Inspection List
    • Red Tagged Items Log
    • Decide What to do With Dispossessed Items

    Straighten

    • Straighten – find it fast; faster
    • Put Order and Sense into the Workplace
    • Set-in-Place to Make Life Easy
    • Visual Control of Tool Storage
    • Visual Management of Inventory and Stock
    • Straighten the Workflow
    • Straighten Check Sheet

    Shine

    • Shine – see problems when they are small
    • 5S Examples – Shine
    • Shine Check Sheet
    • Plan Who, What, How to Clean

    Standardize

    • Standardize – the same rules for all
    • Set Standards for Condition and Use of Tools and Equipment
    • Being Visual – know exactly what is happening
    • Use Visual Management to Show Status
    • What Visual Management Would Help Here?

    Sustain

    • Sustain – ‘this is how we do it here
    • Weekly and Monthly Feedback on Performance
    • Workplace Measurement Checklist – tracking your performance weekly
    • Tracking Your Performance Monthly

    5S Implementation

    • What of Your 5S Implementation?
    • Plan/Prepare 5S Kaizen Blitz

    Workshop Exercises

    • 5S Experiment #1 – Sort, Straighten, Shine
    • 5S Experiment #2 – Refine the Layout
    • 5S Experiment #3 – Fastest Process
    • 5S Experiment #4 to #7 – Standardize and Sustain

     

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    About this course
    This course is not accredited. It is delivered as a professional skills programme, and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance.

    If you need a credit-bearing outcome for B-BBEE skills development, SETA grant or learnership purposes, please see our accredited qualifications and skills programmes, or read about BOTI accreditations.

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    Is this course accredited?

    No. This course is delivered as a practical, facilitator-led skills programme and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance. If you need a credit-bearing outcome for B-BBEE skills development, SETA grant or learnership purposes, ask us about our accredited qualifications, skills programmes and unit standards.

    Can this course be delivered in-house at our premises?

    Yes. Every BOTI course can be delivered on-site at your offices anywhere in South Africa, or at a scheduled public venue, and can be customised to your team and industry.

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    Use the enquiry form on this page for a tailored quote, or call 011 882 8853 / email [email protected]. The course length and next public course date are shown in the Quick Look summary.

    Can this training count towards our B-BBEE scorecard?

    Spend on this course still counts as skills development expenditure for B-BBEE purposes, but it does not count as accredited training spend, and the Codes limit how much non-accredited training can contribute. Please confirm the treatment with your skills development facilitator or B-BBEE verification agency.

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