5S - The Saga Begins

Pierre Dolet writes to The Cube . . .

We are beginning a new program: 5S - a Japanese management system transplanted to America and, in our factory, to be imposed on an employee base that is 80% Mexican. This should be fun.

The Cube expands . . .

Pierre Dolet, do you know anything about 5S - what it stands for, how it got started, what it does? Please keep me posted. . . . Oh, and it will be "fun." I mean, after all, Japan's economy has only been in recession for 15 years, so it makes sense to adopt their workplace models now.