(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) — The procedure outlined in the book, Process Implementation Through 5S: Laying the Foundation for Lean, by Drew Willis (Productivity Press, 2016), shows how basic lean principles can be used to implement standardized work and visual controls through plan-do-check-adjust (PDCA) for process implementation.

This process throughout the book is referred to as “Process Implementation,” and it has been used in multiple types of production, including batching operations where products not only change on a daily basis, but there are also frequent same-day changeovers. This process provides order when sometimes all you can see is chaos.

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