Manufacturing services
When operators spend time looking for tools, materials or the next order, customer delivery suffers. Duggan combines employee education with practical workplace organization in your facility.
Where we start
Identify where people lose time finding tools, materials, information or the next order. Scoping calls establish the workshop boundary, participants and measures of success. The selected area gives the learning a real operating purpose from the outset.
What we do together
A typical two-day workshop combines approximately half a day of education with one and a half days of practical application. Student guides support the learning. Groups typically include up to 20 participants, with a wider rollout planned around the workforce.
What this can enable
Create visible locations and expected workplace conditions that reduce searching and interruptions. People learn the reasoning and ownership needed to sustain the changes. Progress can be assessed through readiness, time spent searching and adherence to the agreed standards.
Scope, deliverables and success measures are agreed around your operation.
Education and practical application
Practical education and student guides explain how workplace organization supports the work.
Facilitated application in a selected area connects the concepts to tools, materials and operating priorities.
Develop a shared understanding of the expected condition and the responsibilities for maintaining it.
5S helps establish the conditions needed to do the work: the right items available, clear locations and a visible expected condition. Duggan connects workplace organization to operating priorities and the wider flow of work.
The aim is to transfer a skill your people can sustain. A workshop is a practical starting point within a broader Operational Excellence plan.
Before the visit, scope the areas involved, employee participation and measures of success.
Approximately half a day of education, with student guides and discussion of the operation.
Approximately one and a half days of practical application to embed learning and produce tangible changes.
Follow-up with Duggan and the consultant connects the workshop with sustainment and further needs.
Groups typically include up to 20 participants. The wider rollout is agreed around your workforce, areas and operating needs.
Connect workplace organization with reduced searching, fewer interruptions and better readiness to do the next job.
Build an internal capability that supports the broader operating plan and avoids repeated clean-up campaigns.
Illustrative work area
The workshop establishes what is needed, where each item belongs and how an absent item becomes visible. Operators practise the arrangement and agree how the condition will be maintained. Before-and-after observations of search time and interruptions help assess the change.
This describes a possible workshop application, not a reported client result.
Engagement example
The wider transformation connected mixed-model manufacturing, visible flow and workforce education with commercial priorities.
This is evidence of a broader Operational Excellence engagement; its results should not be attributed to a standalone 5S workshop.
Read the case study →Examples relate to the stated engagements. Outcomes depend on the starting conditions, scope and implementation.
No. This service is an on-site engagement for groups applying the method to their own operation.
No. It is one tool that supports an operating design. The first conversation establishes whether a workshop or a broader flow-design scope best addresses the problem.
A typical workshop group includes up to 20 people. Larger workforce rollouts are planned separately.
Agree measures relevant to the area, such as time spent searching, work interruptions and adherence to the expected workplace condition.
Teach people why the changes matter, connect them to daily work and establish ownership of the expected condition. Wider participation supports sustainment.
Tell us which work area needs attention, the number of participants and how missing tools or materials affect delivery.
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