absenteeism is high the fact that staff were required to use a considerable amount of effort to manouevre heavy ragbags into the facility will not necessarily be implicated.
And a poor finish on a product or component might lead to negative comments from a customer – but who would think to blame the rag?
“An increased focus on health, safety, professionalism and order in today’s society has led
to the widescale adoption of the Japanese Five S concept.”
There are other knock-on effects from using rags that are even harder to quantify. An increased focus on health, safety, professionalism and order in today’s society has led to the widescale adoption of the Japanese Five S concept: Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardise and Sustain. This determines that there should be a place for everything in the production environment and focuses strongly on cleanliness and order.
Installing a system of disposable wipers in easy-to- locate, fixed positions supports the 5S approach, since this will ensure that all wiping products are ready to use at the point of delivery. It will also create an impression of order on the part of staff and customers.
However, rags left lying around on work surfaces will have the opposite effect, while also making the environment appear old-fashioned and sloppy – something that could damage the company’s brand and lead to yet another hidden cost in the form of lost business.
Rags today do not always consist of unsorted sacks of old clothes, of course. The market is becoming more sophisticated and rags can now be bought in a range of colour and size options or cut to specific sizes and supplied in easy-to-carry boxes.
But the fact that they are not designed for purpose means they still fall a long way short of wipers and cloths that have been specifically engineered for cleaning, polishing, wiping or removing oil.
Rags will continue to be used in industry by some people, because rags are what they have always used. But as purpose-designed wipers become even more efficient and supplied in ever-more convenient formats, the economic argument for using rags will diminish even more rapidly in future.
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