Success with 6S

[Rigga]

6S started out as 4S.

Then 'we' westerners got hold of it and "improved" it - much to the mirth of the Japanese who, when told of the 5th addition, questioned its validity as if your doing the first four the 5th is not needed.

The UK MOD then added the 6th - safety. Again, in the real world, if your doing the first lot you shouldn't need the last. So I suppose there's no Japanese word attached to it yet?

...I suppose thats 'continuous improvement' for you...though I dont think the ethos is supposed to mean 'movement without meaning'.

 

[Cornish_Pikey]

If you've been in the RAF for more than ten minutes, you'll realise that we were actually doing 6s on the quiet all along.

We have friday afternoon tidy ups, hangars with neatly parked ground equipment in marked slots, we even have tool stores with coloured shapes that match the tools that should be there.

We generally only have the tools that are needed in each workplace.

With the realisation of CI we now have an entire section of around 20 people on most stations that are no longer productive and go around running events to improve the 'workers' productivity.

Each event usually lasts two weeks and can involve at least ten people. That adds up to over 200 lost days of productive work on each station per year. Does saving ten minutes per day in 'waste activities' ever going to make up for the lost time??????????

 

[Realist78]

If you've been in the RAF for more than ten minutes, you'll realise that we were actually doing 6s on the quiet all along.

We have friday afternoon tidy ups, hangars with neatly parked ground equipment in marked slots, we even have tool stores with coloured shapes that match the tools that should be there.

We generally only have the tools that are needed in each workplace.

With the realisation of CI we now have an entire section of around 20 people on most stations that are no longer productive and go around running events to improve the 'workers' productivity.

Each event usually lasts two weeks and can involve at least ten people. That adds up to over 200 lost days of productive work on each station per year. Does saving ten minutes per day in 'waste activities' ever going to make up for the lost time??????????

Some mighty size broadbrush used for that opinion.

 

[MJDI not SS3]

mmmm your not talking about a unit that does a continuous improvement event that chops post's only to place them on their Team and if you listen to them its the big i am ..............