the 5s institute - an update

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The 5S Institute - An Update

Founded - January 2005

Founder – director hemendra k.

varma


The Background5S is a workplace practice that has its origins in Japan. It can improve working at factories, offices, service set-ups like hospitals, hotels, banks, airlines, transport companies, and government offices.

The name 5S comes from 5 Japanese words that begin with the letter S -- Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu & Shitsuke.

While 5S is conceptually old hat, it has caught the fancy of some progressive Indian Industrial houses only in recent years. Wherever it has been seriously and properly adopted, the results have been dramatic, to say the least. Some excellent examples are Indo-Gulf Fertilisers, Milton Plastics, Sundaram Fasteners, Telco, Classic Stripes, and ICICI Bank.

5S is the foundational input for all Quality and Lean Management Initiatives.

Benefits of 5S Implementation

• Significant freeing of work space for productive work -- in cities where space is extremely costly, this can mean a significant monetary saving.

• Measurable reduction in search time of documents and other items (A 5S office is expected to retrieve any document in less than a minute !)

• As a result of the above, much faster response times to Customer Requests.

• Visible and distinctive improvement in House keeping

• Generation of a much "safer" and more "hygienic" working environment

• Significant reduction in loss due to damage and misplacement in storage

• Reduction in consumption of consumables

• Tremendous boost in morale of the workforce and a healthy build-up of "pride“ in one's work-place

• In addition, in case of factories, the following also obtains :• Significant reduction in throughput time of production and despatch

• Reduction in number and duration of machine breakdowns

• Reduction in material handling damages

• Reduction in product rejections caused by a dirty environment



The Beginning

Since 1999, pratik management productivity systems, a Mumbai – based management consultancy & training organisation had been imparting training and implementation assistance in 5S to various companies, as part of its overall offering of World Class Mfg Practices encompassing 5S, TPM, JIT, SMED. .

In 2005, it decided to set up a dedicated Institute for this purpose which would provide training and consultancy inputs in 5S.

Established as the 5S Institute of India, in January 2005, it was not only the first such Institute in India, it was also the first Institute in the world for 5S Training & Consultancy. Subsequently, it has been re-christened as The 5S Institute.

While 5S, as a topic, is covered by many other institutes & institutions, there is no other body dedicated to 5S training/consultancy. The 5S Institute continues to remain the only 5S Institute / Institution till date, i.e. September 2010.


5S Certified Practitioners Family

The total number of Certified Practitioners has grown to close to 600, across 19 cities viz., Alibag, Ankleshwar, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhilai, Chennai, Durgapur, Gandhidham, Gurgaon, Gwalior, Haldia, Hosur, Khopoli, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nashik, New Delhi, Pune & Thane.

These participants have come from over 50 organisations, including Amtek Auto, Bhilai Steel Plant, CEAT, Crompton Greaves, Electrex India, Everest Kanto, Haldia Petrochem, Hexaware, Hinduja Hospital, IDEA Cellular, IDT, IPCL, Ispat Industries, JSW Steel, KEC, Kilburn Engg, LuK India, NITCO Tiles, Novozymes South Asia, Philips Software, Phillips Carbon Black, Pranav Construction, Privi Organics, Raymond India, RITES, RPG Cables, RPG Enterprises, RPG Transmissions, Sansera Engg, SAP India, SBI, Shreya Life Sciences, South Point School, Surya Roshni, Suzlon Energy, Tata Consulting Engineers, Tata Motors, Uttam Steel, Voltas, Wartsila.


Industry – wise Distribution of 5S Certified Practitioners


Programme Rating by Participants

Over 80 % of the participants till date have rated the 5S Certification Programme as Excellent whilst over 98 % have rated it as either “Excellent” or “Very Good”


5S Institute Training Activities

PUBLIC PROGRAMMES

1. 5S Practitioners Certification Programme -- 2 days2. 5S Trainers Programme -- 6 days3. 5S Masters Programme -- 3 days

Each programme will have a limited batch size of 25-30 participants. If there are a sufficient number of employees to be trained (minimum 20 in each batch) then, these can also be conducted as in-house programmes.

IN - HOUSE PROGRAMME

4. 5S Introduction Programme -- 1 day5. 5S Exposure Programme -- ½ day


The 5S Institut

eOrganisations range from Industry, Service Sector, Consultancy, Health and Justice.

578 persons Certified as 5S Practitioners

27 Certification Programmes held so far

Practitioners are from over 50 organisations

1st Certification Programme held in Bangalore in May 2005

Over 2000 persons trained, in-house through the 5S Introduction & 5S Exposure Programmes

5S Institute Activity Snapshot


Contact us

For further information, please write to :

The 5S InstituteB – 14, Bombay Market AptM. M. Malaviya Road, TardeoMumbai 400034

tel : 91- 022 - 2352 3552 tel/fax : 91- 022 - 2352 3554e-mail : [email protected] or [email protected]


Brief Background of Shri Hemendra K. Varma -- Founder Director of The 5S Institute

Hemendra K. Varma is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from IIT, Kharagpur and has completed a 5-month MANAGEMENT EDUCATION PROGRAMME (MEP) from IIM, Ahmedabad. This is an accelerated MBA course for working executives.

Has over 35 years of working experience of which the first 15 years were spent in the industry. Started his career with Voltas in 1972 and was there till 1981. The next 4 years he worked as the Chief Executive of G. Claridge, a company engaged in the manufacture of paper-pulp moulded articles. Subsequently he was with Jenson & Nicholson as GM - Mfg.

In 1987, started his own management consultancy activities in the areas of Operations Management (particularly World Class Mfg Practices), MIS and Organisation & Human Resources Development. His clients have included, Bright Brothers, Videocon Group, Gala Equipment, Uttam Steel, Sandoz, ATE, Dalal Engg, Kilburn Engg and several others.

Has a number of published articles in newspapers and journals like Economic Times, Financial Express, Indian Management, Management Review, Himmat etc. He has been regularly conducting in-company training programmes in organisations like ALKEM, Videocon, Informix, Atos Origin, L & T Finance, Ceat, Mukand, Std Batteries, Indo - Gulf Fertilisers, Rajshree Cement, E. Merck, ACC, Knoll Pharma, A.T.E., MTNL, IPRS.


Our Other Team Members

Shekhar Deshpande

An Electrical Engineering graduate of BHU – IT, Varanasi, has over 25 years of working experience in companies like ABB, Crompton Greaves, Custom Capsules, Meltron, Geoffrey Manners.

Srikrishna D. Apte

A Diploma Holder in Mechanical Engineering, has over 35 years of working experience in companies like Garware Plastics, Arora Plastics, Bright Brothers, Spark Industries and Clear Plastics.

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