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5S - The FSAB Cleanup

Five-S: Cleaning Up the FSAB

Five-S is an approach to workplace organization that focuses on creating flow, improving communication and reducing waste through the placement and movement of materials, information, machines and people. Facilities Services embarked on a Five-S clean up of the Facilities Services Administration Building (FSAB) February 18–19, 2010 following Five-S LEAN principles:

  1. Sort Out
  2. Scrub Workplace
  3. Select Locations (Straighten)
  4. Set Locations (Standardize)
  5. Sustain

Statistics

  • 100,000 paper clips
  • 2,500 coffee stirrers
  • 1,000 plastic forks
  • 500 paper plates
  • 432 binders (35 boxes)
  • 400 plastic spoons
  • 350 timecard pads
  • 200 plastic knives
  • 50 1998 leave-form pads
  • 36 boxes for shredding
  • 16 large recycle totes
  • 14 boxes for archiving
  • 6 boxes of used envelopes
  • 3 utility cables
  • 2 bottles of typewriter cleaner from 1953
  • 2 injuries
  • 0 fatalities

FSAB Five-S PowerPoint Presentation

Download the FSAB Five-S PowerPoint Presentation.
(Note that the photo slideshows are only viewable in “Slideshow” mode.)