Cleaning & 6S
What "clean" means is visual.
🏭 PRODUCTION
Cleaning, order, standardization - mandatory in high-purity areas. The problem: standards change, and the instruction from 2018 is long outdated.
100%
audit evidence
CIP/COP
documented
multi-
lingual by default
What you document: daily machine cleaning per line, hygiene standards (CIP/COP), tool placement at the workstation (shadow boards), cleaning agent usage and audit checklists as instructions.
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The trigger - how do you recognize it?
- Audits are coming up and you have to prove documented cleaning procedures
- Cleaning staff changes frequently, new people keep asking
- You do not know whether the machine was cleaned properly
- Some areas are maintained better than others - with no apparent reason
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How it works with GIRI
QR code at the workstation or on the cleaning cart. Comparison photos show "this is what it looks like after cleaning", arrows mark critical spots that often get missed, sequence with time indications.
Multilingual too: cleaning staff often has a high share of non-native speakers - multilingual instructions cut training effort significantly.
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The value
- Better audit results through consistent documentation
- Fewer hygiene incidents in regulated industries
- Faster onboarding of cleaning staff
- 5S standards are actually lived, not just pinned to the wall
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Typical users
- Food production (HACCP)
- Pharma & medical technology (GMP)
- Cleanroom areas
- Lean-oriented manufacturing with 5S/6S
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What you want to avoid
- Generic cleaning SOPs - too general, nobody reads them
- Checklists without visuals - what "clean" means is visual
- Separate cleaning agent tables - show them right in the instruction instead
KPI figures are industry benchmarks (Operations1, REWO), not a GIRI guarantee.
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