ABSTRACT
Once your implementation of the first four of the five Ss is complete, you need to create a sustaining program that makes sense for your company and your culture. Every company is different, as is how each one establishes the guidelines and practices needed to sustain the improvements. Some companies can rely on the culture with no real management systems in place. Others need formalized systems. Sustaining the 5S program is the hardest. Your sustaining efforts will never end, including continually improving on what was already implemented.
