7s of Good Housekeeping
7s of Good Housekeeping
7s of Good Housekeeping
Housekeeping
Key Principles:
Organization makes work and life easier.
Organizing is a skill that can be learned.
Becoming organized is a two step process.
1. GETTING organized
2. STAYING ORGANIZED
PDCA CYCLE
Attempts to provide a repeatable set of steps
that a team or individual can learn and follow
Select the
problems/process
Reflect and
that will be
act on addressed first (or
learning next) and describe
the improvement
opportunity
IMPROVED
ENVIRONMENT
7S: System of Good Housekeeping
Sustain
Techniques that
Sort
provide a
methodology for
organizing,
Safety Systematize cleaning,
Sustain
developing, and
Sustain
Self-
Discipline
sustaining a
productive work
Standar
Shine environment.
dize
Sustain
S:1 - Sort
This is the Take out
most unnecessary
important items and dispose
step. them.
Verify to
ensure the
list
Classify the
needed and
not needed
S:2 - Systematize
ARRANGING ELIMINATING TIME
NECESSARY ITEMS WASTED IN SEARCHING
IN GOOD ORDER FOR THINGS WE NEED.
FOR USE
FUNCTIONAL
STORAGE ORGANIZING
PLACE A LITTLE
THINGS USED NEARER
CONSTANTLY
ENCLOSE IN A
SELDOM USED SEPARATE,
DESIGNATED PLACE
S:3 - Shine
Cleaning your
workplace and
eliminating the root
cause.
Creating a
spotless
workplace
Maintaining high
standard of
housekeeping
Standardization can be
achieved through visual
control system.
Standardize using Visual Control
Doing things
spontaneously without
being told or ordered.
PRODUCTIVITY?
It is a MEASURE OF
THE EFFICIENCY OF
PRODUCTION.
Productivity is a ratio
of production (output)
to what is required to
produce it (inputs)
If we make it a way of life, we will
reap the following benefits:
MORE SPACE
BETTER ACCESSIBILITY
IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
GOOD HABITS
ENDURED SAFETY
It is not what you think,
it is how you think.