Comparison Review of 5S Garage Video and 5S into Action DVD

I had to watch a couple of training videos the other day (5S into Action and 5S Garage), and it reminded me how TERRIBLE most of them are.  First off, there aren't a lot of producers of industrial safety DVDs and training videos, and, second, most of the makers of said videos are TALENTLESS hacks, apparently.

I swear, I've seen some safety training videos that looked like they were produced in the late 70s and they didn't even have the right name of the company, or misspelled it!  That is fairly atrocious, and I think a lot of those videos are more or less ineffective at conveying the subject matter with any degree of complexity or true clarity.  I can only imagine what some working guy sitting there watching this outdated, garbled mess thinks--in the midst of the yawns, laughter, and snores of his coworkers.

Now, not all industrial videos are irrelevant, and I think the ones I'm reviewing in this blog post are fairly well done and modern.  I'm no industrial engineer, but I am reviewing this as a person who was not as familiar with the subject matter before, and now, through the educational material presented on these videos, I feel I may understand it better.

I'm not saying these videos are PERFECT, though.  In my opinion, they could both use a bit more editing.  But, then again, I am pickier than some.

These two videos focus on educating the audience about the 5S Japanese management methodology:

This head to head comparison slates "5S into Action " by Enna  VERSUS  "5S Garage - An Introduction to 5S and Lean Principles " by Old Iron Media.

     

Out of the two industrial training courses,  I would honestly have to say that, while it looks a bit lower in video production values, my favorite video of these two is "5S Garage."  I felt that Garage explained the process without all the "glamor" shown in Action--where a group of actors pretended they were workers and with a staged board meeting with an "executive" narrator who clearly did not really understand what she was reading from the cue cards. Garage explained the idea of 5S from the perspective of a homeowner's garage (much like Hamilton does in "Toast Kaizen") and how we can achieve more efficiency and less waste via the 5S pillars, which the narrator/actor clearly understands and explains--like a real instructor would.

Where Action is more effective is in its re-enactments of a factory shop and how 5S can be implemented into any facility.  I just thought the narrator was very ineffective and they displayed her face staring back at me for way too long. 

Either way, I think I learned a bit more about 5S from watching both of these videos, so it's not a total wash, and, frankly, there's not a lot of other choices out there--until I make one ;)