Disorganized workspaces disrupt flow and slow productivity.
Duggan’s 5S solutions establish structure, improve efficiency, and set the stage for sustainable Operational Excellence.
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What is The 5S Method and How Can Duggan Help?
The 5S Method is more than just workplace organization—it’s a foundational tool for enabling flow and sustaining Operational Excellence. By systematically sorting, organizing, and maintaining workspaces, 5S reduces wasted time, improves efficiency, and builds a culture of process discipline. Duggan implements 5S as a foundational step in operational transformation, ensuring it enhances value stream flow, strengthens visual management, and delivers measurable, lasting improvements.
Sort
Eliminate clutter by removing unnecessary items, creating a more efficient workspace.
Straighten
Organize essential tools and materials for easy access, reducing wasted time.
Shine
Maintain cleanliness to improve equipment performance and quickly identify issues.
Standardize
Establish consistent processes to ensure quality and reliability across operations.
Sustain
Foster long-term discipline and engagement, ensuring 5S principles remain ingrained in daily operations.
Success: How 5S Fuels Growth
5S isn’t just about organization—it’s a critical enabler of your future state flow. With the 8 Lean Guidelines in place, every process is designed for efficiency, ensuring predictable cycle times, optimized inventory levels, and clear workflow visibility. 5S plays a crucial role in maintaining these standards, helping teams stay on track and meet 100% on-time delivery goals. While “Success” isn’t one of the official S’s, it’s the natural result when 5S is implemented effectively—driving sustainable growth and operational excellence.
Build a Culture of Operational Excellence
A strong 5S foundation reinforces a process-driven mindset, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and lasting improvements that drive sustainable success.
Build Momentum with Quick, Measurable Wins
5S delivers immediate impact, driving engagement and operational improvements from day one. With a hands-on, easy-to-learn approach, teams quickly see the benefits of organization, reduced waste, and streamlined workflows—fueling enthusiasm for the next phase of your OpEx transformation.
Enhance Visual Management from Day One
5S lays the groundwork for effective visual management, helping teams track workflow, identify inefficiencies, and maintain process discipline. Early visual cues ensure alignment, prevent overload, and set the stage for seamless operational flow.
Real Results. Lasting Impact.
“It’s really focused on customers; it’s focused on markets; it’s focused on strategy. Operations get time, it’s not ignored. It’s not like we don’t want to talk about it. It’s that we don’t have to talk about it.”
Jim Miller, Vice President of Operations and Plasma Businesses at Hypertherm
“Tim spent three days with us to teach us Operational Excellence in the office methods, and help us apply them to one of our core value streams … But by the third day, the team was fully sold on the ideas and extremely motivated to make the changes happen immediately. This is a credit to the OpEx methods and particularly to the way Tim taught with a no-nonsense approach, answered difficult questions, and guided the team to the future state value stream design and action plan.”
Remi Guillemette, Business Processes & Continuous Improvement Manager at CAE Australia Pty Ltd
“I have utilized Kevin Duggan at various times over the last 15 years, first at United Technologies Corporation and now at my current company FMC Technologies. He demonstrates a very high level of competency in all things lean and Operational Excellence, is very articulate and knows how to engage an audience. With his expertise and presentation style, he has my highest recommendation for corporate training and conference keynoting!”
John Boyd, Senior Vice President Global Products at TechnipFMC
Is Your Workspace Holding You Back?
Take control of your operations with Duggan’s proven 5S methodology and drive results that matter.