What is 5S? 5S is a basic part of the Lean philosophy. 5S is a practices that aims to create a structured and clean workplace. This implies among other things at irritation and loss of time, material and other resources due to a lack of order is reduced to a minimum. 5S stands for sort, straighten, shine, standardise, and sustain. In practice, this means that all tools, materials and requipment etc. on the workplace are carefully reviewd and sorted. It is focused on fixed storage areas, orde...