A 5S audit that scores honestly, not theatrically.

What you get

• 25 questions across the five S's, scored 0-4 per question, out of 100.
• A scoring rubric per question so two auditors converge on the same answer.
• A one-page action template for the top three findings: owner, by-when, evidence.
• A worked example filled in for a fictional chilled-foods line so you can see what good (and bad) looks like.
• No theatre. The audit will not flatter you. It exists to find what your team has stopped seeing.

Built by an operator, not a consultant.

The author has spent 20 years on UK production floors (brewing, F&B, contract packing) running Focused Improvement programmes on real lines. This audit was used live before it was packaged.

If you'd rather have the whole working set: the audit, plus seven more tools (FI Wave Planner, SMED Analysis, CI Register, KPI Dashboard and four more), all in one Excel workbook with worked examples. That's the £97 Lean Toolkit. Same author, same approach. No upsell sequence: just the link.

Tier two · the Playbook

An audit tells you where you are. A cadence tells you what to do next.

The 5S audit gives you a score. The Playbook is the 90-day implementation cadence that turns the score into a programme: week-by-week schedule, owner-by-owner, with the Standardise + Sustain mechanisms most teams skip in month two.

Founding price £97 for the first 100 buyers, £197 evergreen after.

See the Playbook