Taiki Akimoto 5S Awards Competition - 2013

18th "Taiki Akimoto 5S Competition 2013.for the Private & Public Sectors will be conducted this year too.

Please lookout for the News Paper notification around July/August 2013.

The Competitors will be categorised according to the number of employees,

• Small Category      -    1 - 50 employees
• Medium Category   -  51 - 250 employees
• Large Category      - above 251 employees

For the Large & Medium Category organisations, the following (3) Audit Sheets are applicable

a. Evaluation Sheet     - 5S Concepts

b. Evaluation Sheet     - KPII for Large & Medium categories (Service sector || Manufacturing sector)

c. Evaluation Sheet     - CSR Projects

For Small Category organisations, the following (2) Audit Sheets are applicable

a. Evaluation Sheet     - 5S Concepts

b. Evaluation Sheet     - KPII for Small Category (Service sector || Manufacturing sector)

THE CLOSING DATE OF APPLICATIONS - (Will be made known)

Interested parties could download the Application Form, Guidelines and Evaluation Sheet-5S Concepts, through the Hyper-link words.

If more information is required, please contact the JASTECA Secretariat Office at No.4, 22nd Lane Colombo 3.

Phone: 0112449057 or 0112337007.

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HOW JASTECA COMMENCED THE 5S COMPETITION

The 5S concept was introduced to Sri Lanka around 1994 by Dr.Taiki Akimoto who was brought to Sri Lanka for a private company assignment at the Midaya Ceremics factory, Meepe, owned by Senior Vice Patron of JASTECA, Mr. Dayasiri Warnakulasooriya who loaned Dr. Taiki Akimoto to JASTECA to conduct the first ever Public Seminar on the 5S concept. With the death of Dr. Taiki Akimoto, JASTECA thought of implementing the 5S concept for the development of the industry and institutions in general and thus commenced the "Taiki Akimoto 5S Awards Competition". Since the year 1996 JASTECA has continuously conducted the competition as an annual event to date, which has become virtually a national event now.

In the past few years large number of applications are received (OVER 100) for the “Taiki Akimoto” 5S Completion including Public & Private Sector Institutions. Some of the institution categories were Manufacturing, Service, Trade, Banks, Apparel, Telecommunication and Hydro-Power Projects.

THE PROCESS

As the applications are called from the potential Institutions to participate at the 5S Competition, an awareness programme on the Implementation of the 5S Concept is conducted as a Public Seminar. Subsequently, an Orientation Program will be conducted for all those Institutions who apply for the 5S Competition with a view to explaining the curriculum applicable to, in conducting the “Taiki Akimoto” 5S Competition as explained in the “5S Concept Manual” publication by JASTECA.

Preliminary Round Audits will be then conducted at every competitors’ Institution by a 3-member panel of auditors and the  Final Round Audits will be conducted with the active participation of a Japanese Expert and the Grand Awards ceremony of the “Taiki Akimoto” 5S Awards will be held at a Hotel in Colombo.

5S Concept Manuals – Sinhala & English

The “Taiki Akimoto” 5S Competition criteria contains 06 elements regarding the 5S Concept, which have been sub-divided to 51 activities while the 06 elements regarding the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) have been sub-divided to 27 activities, making it a total of 78 activities as the total curriculum for the Taiki Akimoto 5S Competition. All these details are explained in the above Text Book.

Any Institution desirous of implementing the 5S Concept may follow the 5S Concept Manual, published by JASTECA, which is available for sale @ Rs.500/- at the JASTECA Office. A “5S Promotional Kit” is also available for sale at the JASTECA Office which contains the 5S Song in Cassette, 12-minute 5S Documentary CD, 5S Hand-Books and 5S Posters. The Tele Docu-drama DVD is also available at Rs 750/-.

The Past winners of “Taiki Akimoto” 5S Awards Competition:-

The experience JASTECA gained over the years on the subject of Japanese Management 5S concept is enormous. This prompted JASTECA to accept the challenge of implementing the 5S concept in five government hospitals namely, Dankotuwa, Madampe, Chillaw, Kuliyapitiya and Kurunegala as a pilot project to ascertain the possibility of changing the management and administration norms in such institutions for obvious benefits on key performance indicator (KPI), before any financial assistance from the Japanese government comes forth to some Asian and East African countries in the future. This project was carried out by Mr Mahinda Saranapala & Mr Premalal Fernando, within a very limited and restricted period of 10 months as such a few areas of each government hospitals mentioned above were developed to a "benchmark" level. This pilot project probably has now exposed the capability and advantages the government hospitals could achieve, hence several government hospitals all over the country have now commenced implementing the 5S concept.