Adg Company 5 S Management Research

Nowadays, with globalization going on, many enterprises in China are facingvarious challenges such as national industrial and economic policy adjustments, thewaning advantage of human resources cost, and inadequate of global demandstimulation etc. As the market competition is intensifying, all enterprises have beencontemplating and changing, incessantly endeavoring to broaden their mind abouttheir way of running business, to be innovative in development and design, and tointroduce such concepts as5S and lean production to their production and logistics.The very innovative part of this thesis comes from my more than10years’experience of being the management in a large Japanese company, the accumulationof applying5S to my own job, and the combination of the5S concept whichoriginates from Japan and the actualities Chinese enterprise management. The thesisalso offers in-depth analysis and narration concerning the relationships between5Sand visualization management,5S and management improvement, and5S and ISOetc., trying to beneficially explore the elementary theory which Chinese enterprisescan adopt to effectively applying5S management, and do my part for enhancing boththe management level and international competitiveness of Chinese enterprises.The means of research adopted in this thesis are recording, analyzing andappraising ADG’s applying5S, details of which are how ADG introduces and applies5S concept, and the approaches and means adopted in the whole process. And whatcomprises the outcome of this thesis is the summary of the whole process of how alarge company successfully integrates the Japanese5S concept with Chinese realityand applies5S to the everyday operations. Besides giving analysis of problems thatfrustrate Chinese enterprises so often during their applying5S—such as themanagement’s failing to play the key role, undesirable persistency, non-full participation, failure to combine improvement and5S concept and so forth,—thethesis also works out the solutions based on the experience of ADG’s applying5S. Bystudying and research ADG’s applying5S, the thesis aims at being some inspirationfor Chinese enterprises when they apply5S in their own organization, so that the latter,learning from ADG’s success and failure encountered in the process of applying5S,can avoid roundabouts and timely find the way out to enhancing their owncompetitiveness.