What is 7S management knowledge?

1. The origin and development of 7S activities

7S - namely sorting, reorganizing, cleaning, cleanliness, literacy, safety and saving, because the beginning of these seven words are all pronounced as " S", so it is called 7S; 7S originated in Japan and refers to the effective management of production factors such as personnel, machines, materials, and methods at the production site. It is a unique on-site management method for Japanese enterprises;

7S has played a huge role in shaping the image of the company, reducing costs, on-time delivery, safe production, high degree of standardization, creating a pleasant workplace, on-site improvement, etc., and has gradually been recognized by the management circles of various countries. know.

2. The meaning of 7S

Sorting (Seiri) Distinguish between necessary and non-essential items, and do not place non-essential items on site. Increase the working area; smooth logistics, prevent misuse, etc.

Seiton: Reasonably arrange the location and method of placing items, and mark them as necessary so that you can find what you are looking for within 30 seconds. The workplace is tidy and clear at a glance, which reduces the time of picking up and placing items, improves work efficiency, and maintains an organized work order area.

Cleaning (Seiso) Keep the post in a garbage-free, dust-free, clean and tidy state. Keep employees in a good working mood and ensure stable product quality, ultimately achieving zero failure and zero loss in enterprise production.

Cleaning (seiketsu) will organize, rectify, and clean to the end and institutionalize it; management will be open and transparent. Making sorting, rectification and cleaning work a routine and system is the basis for standardization and the beginning of an enterprise's corporate culture.

Shitsuke: Everyone must strictly abide by the regulations. Through literacy, employees can become people who abide by rules and regulations and have good work literacy habits.

Safety Safety means eliminating all unsafe factors at work and putting an end to all unsafe phenomena. Protect the personal safety of employees, ensure the continuous safe and normal progress of production, and reduce economic losses caused by safety accidents.

Save (Save) Develop a sense of cost saving and proactively implement it on people and things. It is to rationally utilize time, space, energy, etc. to maximize their effectiveness, thereby creating a highly efficient workplace that makes the best use of materials.

3. The purpose of implementing 7S

1. Improve and enhance corporate image,

2. Promote efficiency improvements

3. Improve parts inventory turnover rate

4. Reduce or eliminate failures to ensure quality

5. Ensure the safe production of enterprises

6. Reduce production costs

7. Improve the mental outlook of employees and energize the organization

8. Shorten the work cycle and ensure delivery time

(1) Sorting: Classify items into useful and useless items, and remove useless items.

Purpose:

(1) Free up space so that space can be more fully utilized.

(2) Prevent misdelivery (sending to the wrong place) and misuse (useless or bad).

(3) Reduce inventory.

(4) Create a refreshing working environment.

Main activities:

(1) Clarify the principles and boldly and decisively remove (or discard) useless supplies.

(2) Study the causes of useless supplies and take countermeasures.

Implementation points:

(1) Determination to abandon.

(2) Act quickly and decisively.

(2) Rectification

Reasonably arrange the location and method of placing items, and make necessary markings.

※ Purpose:

(1) The workplace is clear at a glance.

(2) Reduce or eliminate the time of finding items.

(3) Create a neat and tidy environment.

(4) Eliminate backlog of items (such as spare parts for equipment, etc.).

※Main activities:

(1) Reasonably decide the storage method and layout of items.

(2) Thoroughly implement fixed-point and location-based storage management.

(3) Identify the relevant contents (name, quantity, status, etc.) of the items and places.

(4) Identify them.

※Implementation points:

(1) Three determination principles: determination, positioning, and quantification.

(2) Marking: Carry out appropriate marking on site.

(3) Cleaning

Thoroughly remove garbage, dust and stains from the workplace.

①Purpose

To maintain stable quality.

Maintain the accuracy of instruments and equipment.

Maintain the stability of machinery and equipment and reduce the occurrence of failures.

Create a clean workplace.

②Main activities

Carry out thorough cleaning of areas and equipment (responsibility assigned to each person, no cleaning blind spots).

Enforce garbage and dirt-free operation.

Strengthen the handling and countermeasures of the source of occurrence.

③Implementation points

Thoroughly implement the principle of cleaning (inspection). ,

(4) Cleaning

Continue to implement sorting, rectification and cleaning work, standardize and institutionalize it, and keep the workplace clean, tidy, comfortable and reasonable. Purpose

Keep the place, equipment, etc. clean, make abnormal phenomena visible (easy to find), and visualize the countermeasures when abnormalities occur.

Create comfortable working conditions.

Main activities

Carry out sorting, rectification, and cleaning work thoroughly and continuously, and ensure that responsibilities are assigned to departments and individuals to ensure that there are no cleaning blind spots.

Identify abnormal conditions and countermeasures.

Implementation Points

Activity standardization.

(5) Competencies

Staff are required to establish self-discipline and develop the habit of engaging in pre-4S work, so that the requirements of pre-4S become conscious behaviors in daily work.

Purpose

Create team spirit.

Let employees abide by rules and regulations

Cultivate talents with good qualities and habits

Main activities

Strengthen the education of employees.

Create a good working environment and working atmosphere.

Strengthen communication among employees.

Appropriately evaluate employees' efforts.

Implementation Points

Produce training materials and strengthen employee education.

(6) Safety

Safety is to eliminate all unsafe factors at work and put an end to all unsafe phenomena

Purpose

Purpose It is to protect the personal safety of employees, ensure the continuous safe and normal production, and at the same time reduce economic losses caused by safety accidents.

The main activity

is to strictly implement operating procedures at work and strictly prohibit illegal operations.

Always pay attention to safety, always pay attention to safety.

Implementation points

Eliminate hidden dangers, eliminate dangerous situations, and prevent accidents.

(7) Saving

It is to develop the awareness of cost saving and actively implement it on people and things;

Purpose

Improve the economy Benefits,

Reduce management costs.

The main activity

is to make reasonable use of time, space, energy, etc., and use the things that can be used as much as possible;

Treat it with the mentality that you are the master Resources of the enterprise;

Do not throw them away casually, and consider their remaining use value before discarding them.

Implementation Points

Use rationally to maximize effectiveness.

Make the best use of everything.

IV. Knowledge Focus

Cultivating employees’ good 7S habits is the ultimate goal of implementing 7S and a sign of successful implementation.

7S is a work that continues to advance, with only progressive tense and no concepts of past tense and perfect tense.

There is a fundamental difference between 7S and general cleaning. 7S activities not only need to clean the site, but the most important thing is that through continuous activities, the level of 7S on site can reach a certain height and develop good habits. .

7S is part of the work of all employees. Good working habits and problem awareness are also important elements for improving the quality of technical personnel. 7S must be treated like technical work.

7S is applicable to all industries. Because there are various reasons (sources) that make the site dirty, continuous 7S activities are needed to solve the problem.