Decisions on items cleared from an area.
Use it during the Sort step of 5S. Log each red-tagged item with its location, reason and decision, and it summarises what was kept, moved, sold or disposed of.
Decision: Keep, Relocate, Dispose, Sell or Return. Reason, for example: not used, excess, broken, unknown.
Red tag anything with no clear use in the area. Give owners a fixed period, such as two weeks, to decide. Untagged items nobody claims go to the agreed disposal route.
Red tagging is the Sort step of 5S. Anything not needed for current work gets a red tag and moves to a holding area until someone decides to keep, relocate, sell or scrap it.
A red-tag event in a machining cell tags 58 items, including 11 obsolete fixtures and 9 drums of unused coolant. After the review, 41 items are removed and two pallet spaces are freed for work in progress.
A label placed on an item whose need is in doubt. It is moved to a holding area until a decision is made.
Typically 2 to 4 weeks, long enough for owners to claim them.
The area leader, with input from the item owner and finance for anything of significant value.