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5S Simulation

By Ron Pereira Updated on May 23rd, 2019

5s-game.jpgI received my prize for my hard fought victory in the recent GembaPantarei 5S competition.  The prize was a 5S simulation game.  My 4 year old daughter has been after me to let her have a shot at it.  Yesterday was her lucky day!

I don’t want to give it all away and spoil the surprise for those of you that buy the simulation.  Let me just say it definitely drives the point home regarding the need for 5S.

I will say there are three rounds to the simulation and while I did have to simplify the simulation for my daughter it was still challenging enough to teach her (again 4 years old) how important 5S is.

The goal of the simulation is to complete a task as fast as you can, applying aspects of 5S after each round.  My daughters times for the three rounds were:

  1. 95 seconds
  2. 20 seconds
  3. 15 seconds

My sensei wife had to do the entire simulation… she was a bit cocky since she has been through 5S training back in her corporate days.  After the first round she came back to reality.  Her times:

  1. 47 seconds
  2. 16 seconds
  3. 8 seconds

If you want a challenging, quick, and fun 5S simulation this is the one.

Editors Note: Since the publication of this article back in 2007, the 5S simulation products are no longer available.  Gemba Academy does offer two simulation video demonstrations in our 5S Workplace Productivity course.


  1. Tim

    May 30, 2007 - 1:03 am
    Reply

    Your daughter will be teaching Lean before Junior High school!

  2. Ron

    May 30, 2007 - 1:06 am
    Reply

    God willing Tim!

  3. Del Ames

    September 3, 2010 - 7:41 am
    Reply

    How can I actually get a copy of the 5S simualtion game?

  4. Paul Isabelle

    May 9, 2011 - 8:05 am
    Reply

    I am interested to buy the 5S game for my teaching in a Quality Management course. How can I get it?

    Thanks a lot

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