With our busy lifestyles today, the kitchen is probably one of the most used and important rooms in the house. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen and most home buyers believe that the kitchen is the center of the home.
The problem with so many kitchens is that they are poorly designed. Kitchen design and feel are often dictated by style rather than form and function. If we had a blank sheet of paper, would any of us have something like the kitchen we have?
Lean techniques are the buzzword in the industry today and some would say that applying the 5S methodology to our daily lives will have some benefit. We all seem to do the same thing in roughly the same order every day. Albert Einstein once said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Many of us complain about how busy our lives are, but how often do we really analyze our daily routine?
The 5S methodology originated from five Japanese words
Seiri – Ranking
Seiton – Straighten or set in order / stabilize
Seiso – Sweeping or Shining or Cleaning / Systematic Cleaning
Seiketsu – Standardization
Shitsuke – Maintain discipline or self-discipline
5S can be used to understand the regular process we do in the kitchen and whether we can better organize our kitchen. An example of this is making sure that your kitchen ingredients that you use regularly are easy to manage and well organized.
