Project Focus: Reorganize Garage for Efficiency, Safety, and Accessibility. Scope: This project entails the reorganization of my house garage in such a way that it will be more accessible, efficient, and safe. My garage currently serves multipurpose functions: tools, sports equipment, gardening tools, and seasonal items. Aims at organizing and restructuring the garage, which acts as storage for tools, seasonal items, sports equipment, gardening supplies, and excess household items. The aim is to have a space that is systematically organized and accessible, providing easy access to high$-$frequency items without disregarding storage capacity. Organizing Steps: Evaluation and Planning: Analyze the prevailing conditions in the garage. Decide on what can be kept, donated, or thrown away. Draw up a plan for the garage layout, keeping in mind the frequency of use and accessibility of items. Decluttering: Clear everything out of the garage, then categorize goods into three lists: things to remain in the garage, things to donate, and things to throw away. Dispose of items no longer needed or donate them as necessary. Cleaning Clean the shelving, the walls, and the floor of the garage Attend to any maintenance issues, such as sealing gaps or repairing shelving that may be damaged. Organizing Install shelving systems and pegboards, along with storage bins for maximum utilization of vertical space. Label storage bins and shelves for identification purposes. Categorize items regarding the type and frequency of usage. Action: Return all items to the garage based on the new design. Ensure easy access to frequently used items. Analyze and Revise: After weeks, assess the new organization system. Make any alteration necessary as per how the system works. Stakeholders Family Members: All who form part of the family use the garage for tool and equipment accessibility or storage. Neighbors: When the tools or equipment are shared, with them also being housed in the garage, then neighbors will be considered as stakeholders. Service Providers$-$Anybody whose services might be needed and thus require access to the garage either for maintenance or repair. Analysis and Lean Concepts Reason for Selection: It was chosen because the garage is currently disorganized, and it wastes time in finding things, besides being a potential cause of hazards. Types of Waste Identified: Overproduction$/$Inventory: Items present which are not needed yet occupy space. Motion Waste: Time and energy used in searching for tools and equipment. Space Waste: Horizontal and vertical spacing utilized effectively. Preliminary Ideas for Streamlining: Applying the $5$S methodology: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain to maintain organization and cleanliness. Lessons on apparent storage: The use of clear containers and labels saves the time taken for an item to be found, while it also helps in making a visual inventory. Shelves that can be adjusted: This aids with the optimization of storage, it can hold various sizes of items. Explanation and objectives: The garage reorganization project transforms an unkempt and diverse storage space into an effective, safe, and accessible environment. By being comprehensive to assess, declutter, clean, and use a disciplined storage system, the garage becomes a simplified space to help with daily activities in an effort not to waste so much time searching for things. Key strategies include the Lean $5$S methodology to maintain long$-$term organization and maximize the use of vertical and horizontal space with labeled bins and moveable shelving. The project, therefore, shall come up with a functional and accessible garage that will be used to save time by improving safety and maintaining organization among family members, as well as other stakeholders. This shall be achieved by ensuring there is maximum utilization of the available storage through the elimination of unnecessary items and steps in the process, hence satisfying the Lean principles of garage organization. Create a VSM process flow map of the way$($s$)$ each stakeholder uses or interacts with the previous topic $($Note: pages $114-118$ in Lean Production Simplified$).$ creating the flowchart. Make sure to capture as much detail as possible regarding how items are placed in$,$ used, or removed from this workstation. Identify how long it takes for you to perform the specific tasks within your workspace$/$storage location and include those figures on your VSM$.$ Create a copy of the flowchart you created for your Baseline VSM $($suggested as another worksheet within your excel workbook$)$ named Revised VSM and identify 'Kaizen Opportunities' and notes regarding areas of waste $/$ potential improvement. Identify all value$-$added and non$-$value$-$added add steps and the ideas you have for process improvement in each of these areas. Submit the deliverables above. For the VSM you can either take a screen shot of your excel template directly and 'inse