5S

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5S

Sort, straighten, shine, standardize, sustain: a workplace discipline used to ensure reliable work practices and a clean working environment, now used in the West but originally from Japan.

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The original Japanese words were Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke.
It has been claimed that some of the meaning has been lost in translation in order to ensure that the English words all start with the letter S.