STUDY ON CHANGE IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY USING 5S TECHNIQUE

The 5S method, developed to ensure ergonomics in the workplace, productivity growth, reducing defects and increasing cleaning. 5S is a basic tool to promote continuous improvement process in Industry and represents a changing in 5 steps of a job, which is characterized by more efficiency at the micro level and minimum loss. The instruments which can be used for implementing could be the Kaizen circles for training, analysis, and execution, as well as visual elements, posters or graphics. The 5 phases are Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke, which can be converted as Sort, Set in order, Scrub, Standardize, and Sustain, focusing on orderliness and being applied very much in Japanese industries. The stages include inputs objectives related to the efficiency and effectiveness of the process, but also subjective, which indicate to moral values, education, training, culture. For each 5S stage, the important elements which are underlying the execution and maintain the compliance are described. Any company that applied the 5S program will have quick and visible results, reducing different types of waste. The final section presents a case study and some rules in order to sustain the designed standards and implement a continuous quality improvement. The concluding remarks could be considered as work instructions in order to implement the 5S rules.