5S, rolled out

Set in order — across every bench, not just one drawer.

A Systemax representative comes to your site, works through your tools with you, and designs shadow-fit inserts for the whole shop. Your technicians keep working; you approve the plan before anything is made.

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The cost of a tidy-ish shop

Nobody schedules the time it takes to find a tool

Shadow boards are not a new idea, and no one in a workshop needs convincing that they work. A tool is either sitting in its own outline or it is visibly gone, and a supervisor can read a bay from the doorway.

What stops shops is the work of getting there. Someone has to measure every tool, draw it, and cut the foam — for every bench, in a shop where all of those tools are in use. It is a project nobody has a spare week for, so it stays on the list.

That is the part we take. We do the measuring, the drawing and the making. You approve a plan and take delivery of inserts that fit the tools you already own.

Time nobody logs

Hunting through a drawer does not appear on a job card, which is exactly why it never gets addressed.

Tools that drift

Between shifts and between benches, a set that was complete on Monday is short by Thursday, and nobody can say when.

Every new hire starts over

A layout only lives in the head of whoever built it. A shadow board is the same instruction for everyone on day one.

What we actually do

Four steps. Three of them are ours.

01
We come and look
A representative visits your shop, sees the benches, the drawers and the way the work actually moves, and agrees the scope with you.
02
We capture your tools on site
We photograph and measure the tools you own — the worn ones, the ground-down ones, the odd one somebody made. Nothing is ordered from a catalogue.
03
We design it, you approve it
You see the layout for each drawer before anything is committed, and say what to move. Nothing gets made until you have signed it off.
04
We produce and deliver
Inserts arrive as a kit that drops into the drawers they were designed for, with each tool in its own shadow.

Why it holds

A standard, not a one-off tidy-up

One-off organisation decays. What makes 5S stick is that the layout is a documented standard you can reproduce — and that is what you are buying here.

Approve once, repeat everywhereAn agreed drawer is a spec. The same bay layout goes to every bench and every van, so a technician moving between them finds the same tool in the same place.
It stays matched as you growAdd a bench next year and it is built to the standard you already approved, not redesigned from nothing.
Change one box, not the drawerWhen a toolset moves on, the affected box is replaced on its own. The rest of the layout is untouched.
Auditable at a glanceA complete bay looks complete from across the room, and an incomplete one is obvious without opening anything.
Your mark on the kitCompany marks, bay numbers or a technician's initials go into the boxes themselves, so ownership is visible on the part.
Your tools stay yoursEverything is traced from the tools you already own, so nobody has to standardise on a brand or replace working kit.

Who this is for

Shops where the same job happens more than once

Workshops and garages

Multiple benches doing comparable work, where a technician should not have to relearn a bay.

Service fleets

Vans that need to leave in the morning with a set that is provably complete.

Production and assembly

Stations where a missing tool stops a line and needs to be visible immediately.

Labs and calibration

Instruments that have a defined place, and need to be seen to be back in it.

Trade teams

Crews sharing kit across sites, where accountability is otherwise a conversation.