Implementation of 5s in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

Abstract

There have been many studies carried out on Lean manufacturing implementation in larger organizations with specific focus such as sig sigma, kaizen, just-in-time and many others lean tools. Many of these studies shows that Lean manufacturing implementation has driven the organization with tremendous improvement. Lean implementation among Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) has not been so extensively researched or even implemented among the SME companies. This project was a case study which attempts to bridge this gap by implementing the Lean manufacturing principles in SME with a perspective of identifying the benefits of the implementation. A company was chosen and agreed to took part in this case study. After getting the agreement from the company, a selected lean manufacturing tool (5S practices) was implemented. This aim of this project is to determine the outcome after the implementation of 5S practices.