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IndM 6580 Assignment – Applying LSS in Daily Life
This assignment asks you to implement Lean Six Sigma tools in your home (or apartment) or your office, in daily life. Some ideas would be 5S in the laundry room, a Kanban system for your pantry to know when to shop for certain foods, a shadow board for the silverware drawer, color coded storage boxes (red and green for Christmas items), a tennis ball in the garage to poke-yoke the parking position, etc.
Students will submit 2-3 pages write up of the project (s) (Times NR, font 12, single space) including pictures before and after your implementation. If it is a very small project, you can have 2-3 projects in this assignment. Your writing should include the follows:
• Project (s) name – for example pantry makeover, Poka Yoke and parking position, 5S in laundry room, organizing tools with shadow board.
• Brief definition and some details of your selected LSS tools • Challenges that were experienced and how you overcame them. How dramatic was the
before and after? Include data on the impact of the improvement (square footage saved, inventory reduced, etc.).
• Pictures of before and after your implementation • References (if any)
Submit your assignment in Discussion Board, under forum “Applying LSS for Daily Life”, see the due date from Course Schedule.
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Example of writing assignment
Mr. Gary Lee, a phd student in Technology Management, provided an example of how to do a 5S to the laundry area in a garage
If you choose to do a 5S project do not stop at the first 2 or 3 S’s by simply organizing an area. See the example below of a laundry room that includes all 5 of the S’s.
5S to the laundry area in a garage. 1. We Sort the garage in half so that the laundry can be done cleanly on one side and the
dirty car stuff on the other. The laundry care goes on the right side of the garage and automotive care/work goes on the left side.
2. We use Set In Order in the laundry room so dryer sheets don’t go in the washer and detergent doesn’t go in the dryer. Everything is in order by the washer and dryer. There is a colored clothes bin and a white clothes only bin. On top of the dryer: 1. Spot treatment spray 2. Detergent 3. Softener 4. Dryer sheets and balls
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3. We Shine the laundry room by wiping down any spills and keeping dirty clothes in the proper bins. The laundry area in the garage is always clean and wiped up of any detergent spills. The dryer sheets and lint build up are trashed after each clothes drying session.
4. We Standardize the laundry room by using a white bin for white clothes and a colored bin for colored clothes. The pink socks don’t belong with the white shirts!
5. We Sustain the laundry room by doing a weekly check that the cleaning items are “Set In Order.” We also check to see if the bins are full and ready to wash and that we have enough cleaning supplies for the next loads. Whoever does laundry last, always checks to see how much cleaning supplies we have left for the next loads.
Example of using LSS for daily life (some images are from Google.com)
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IndM 6580 Assignment – Applying LSS in Daily Life
5S to the laundry area in a garage.
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