5S (methodology)

Two major frameworks for understanding and applying 5S to business environments have arisen, one proposed by Takahashi and Osada, the other by Hiroyuki Hirano.<ref name=”5-pillars”>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/5pillarsofvisual00hira|title=5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace|last=Hirano|first=Hiroyuki|publisher=Productivity Press|year=1995|isbn=978-1-56327-047-5|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|url-access=registration}}, also available from [[Taylor and Francis Group]] at [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780367804886/5-pillars-visual-workplace-hiroyuki-hirano], accessed on 15 November 2025</ref><ref name=”Osada”>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll-1AAAAIAAJ&q=The+5S%E2%80%99s:+Five+keys+to+a+Total+Quality+Environment|title=The 5S’s: Five keys to a Total Quality Environment|last=Osada|first=Takashi|publisher=Asian Productivity Organization <!–|123= 9283311167–>|year=1995|isbn=978-9-28331-115-7|location=US|access-date=July 26, 2017}}</ref> Hirano’s work, published in 1995, referred to five “pillars”,<ref name=”5-pillars” /> which provided a structure to improve programs with a series of identifiable steps, each building on its predecessor.

Two major frameworks for understanding and applying 5S to business environments have arisen, one proposed by Takahashi and Osada, the other by Hiroyuki Hirano.<ref name=”5-pillars”>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/5pillarsofvisual00hira|title=5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace|last=Hirano|first=Hiroyuki|publisher=Productivity Press|year=1995|isbn=978-1-56327-047-5|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|url-access=registration}}, also available from [[Taylor and Francis Group]] at [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780367804886/5-pillars-visual-workplace-hiroyuki-hirano], accessed on 15 November 2025</ref><ref name=”Osada”>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll-1AAAAIAAJ&q=The+5S%E2%80%99s:+Five+keys+to+a+Total+Quality+Environment|title=The 5S’s: Five keys to a Total Quality Environment|last=Osada|first=Takashi|publisher=Asian Productivity Organization <!–|123= 9283311167–>|year=1995|isbn=978-9-28331-115-7|location=US|access-date=July 26, 2017}}</ref> Hirano’s work, published in 1995, referred to five “pillars”,<ref name=”5-pillars” /> which provided a structure to improve programs with a series of identifiable steps, each building on its predecessor.

Before this Japanese management framework, a similar “scientific management” was proposed by [[Aleksei Gastev|Alexey Gastev]] and the USSR [[Central Institute of Labour]] (CIT) in Moscow.<ref name=”WorkManagingRusJap”>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231965117 Managing «modernity»: work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Japan and Russia], Rudra Sil, Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2002</ref>

Before this Japanese management framework, a similar “scientific management” was proposed by [[Aleksei Gastev|Alexey Gastev]] and the USSR [[Central Institute of Labour]] (CIT) in Moscow.<ref name=”WorkManagingRusJap”>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231965117 Managing «modernity»: work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Japan and Russia], Rudra Sil, Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2002</ref>

== Each ”S” ==

== Each ”S” ==