Course Detail: MFG303 - The 5S System: The Visual Workplace

Purdue University Fort Wayne leverages the resources of Purdue University by teaming up with their MEP program to offer this training.

The Mission:
To advance economic prosperity, health, and quality of life in Indiana and beyond. Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) provides high value, affordable solutions to help businesses increase profitability. As advocates for Indiana's thousands of manufacturers, our staff leverages resources in both the public and private sectors to help identify areas of improvement, streamline processes, and ultimately increase competitiveness.




The 5S System: The Visual Workplace

This workshop offers participants an opportunity to experience first-hand how a 5S System reduces waste in a simulated production facility. Participants learn the concepts of the 5S System - Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain - and then apply them to transform a cluttered, disorganized, inefficient production area into an orderly and productive workplace. 

The outcome is more than just a clean work area. The workshop shows participants how a 5S System can increase the value-added output per worker, with improvements in productivity, safety, and quality with savings going right to the bottom line.


Objectives:

  • Describe differences in workplace appearance and functionality before and after the 5S process has been applied.
  • Perform an in-depth audit of workplace organization and standardization through use of a Workplace Scan.
  • Organize a workplace by applying the concepts of Sort, Set in Order, and Shine.
  • Standardize procedures to maintain and control an organized workplace using visual controls.
  • Explain methods to apply the fifth concept, Sustain.
  • Describe how 5S can help to improve workplace environmental health and safety.


Intended audience: Manufacturing personnel, including technicians, engineers, and managers


Take all five workshops to earn the certificate:

Principles of Lean Manufacturing and Lean Culture

Principles of Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

Quick Changeover/Set-Up Reduction

Total Productive Maintenance


This course will be delivered online. Classes will be facilitated by a live instructor during the scheduled course times. Participants should have a computer with a strong internet connection, a working microphone, and speakers. Students are required to utilize the camera and microphone to participate in this interactive class. Class participation enhances the online learning experience. Your instructor will send a meeting link to all students once registration has closed.



About the Instructor: Bobbie Gilman is a Mechanical Engineer with more than 30 years of experience. Bobbie started her career in project management leading product development projects. She has designed and implemented 100's of high volume components and has been awarded three U.S. patents. She has managed projects with capital budgets of more than $10 million. She enjoys the power of a team as they share ideas and work to deliver strong solutions. 


While managing projects, she learned that if the processes around her were weak or broken, they impacted her ability to succeed. She began leveraging the power of teams and Lean principles to help organizations improve operations. She has taught classes around the globe and works in a variety of industries: manufacturing, medical, construction, offices, high volume test facilities, job shops, warehouses, and more. 

  • Project Management - Projects > $10 million
  • Product Development - High Volume
  • Assembly - Labor Balance for > 100 People
  • Lean - Since 1998 (Manufacturing, Medical, Construction, Offices, Warehouses, High Volume Test Facilities, and more.)
  • Three (3) U.S. Patents - "There is always a simpler way."

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