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GREEN Thinking
Lean and "Green" go together like peanut butter and jelly. Find out how, when noted Lean author and Green Enterprise Movement Director, Brett Wills, joins Captain Karl on the Lean Nation Hotline they discuss reducing carbon footprints and how Lean and Green strategies often overlap. Everybody's going Green, right? So why not string a little Lean into it while you're at it...
Listen to podcast at ? Lean Nation 5-19-10
Green Dictionary ~ Definitions on the most commonly used words and a resource for helping you to learn and use "green” terminolgy.
Green Web Links ~ List of recommended websites that inform and provide tools such as calculators that help you define the value and measure the impact of your "green" activities.
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Book Review of Green Intentions:
Creating a Green Value Stream to Compete and Win
By Marc Jensen (8?5?09)
Author: Brett Wills
(Productivity Press [Taylor and Francis Group], 2009)
ISBN: 978?1?4200?8961?5
Green Intentions provides a focused and practical repurposing of many key lean concepts from the
specific perspective of environmental conservation. The format of the book as a whole is a play on Taiichi Ohno’s Seven Wastes,
re?envisioned here as the Seven Green Wastes. In translating lean to green, Wills’ work centers around the idea that rather than
just looking at processes and waste from the perspective of the customer, one can also look at them from the perspective
of the environment, with wastes being either any waste product or wasted resource that has a negative environmental impact.
Wills’ lists these seven green wastes as: Energy, Water, Materials, Garbage, Transportation, Emissions, and Biodiversity.
Importantly, Green Intentions outlines principles throughout that support the business case for environmental conservation
Implementing Lean For Green Sustainability Oct 2008 At a time when many manufacturers have been forced to lay off workers, cut margins and relocate overseas just to compete, some companies have been able to hire more workers, increase profits and keep operations in North America simply by implementing and improving lean and green sustainability initiatives.......
.......Brett Wills, plant manager for Powersmiths, a manufacturer of energy efficient transformers, has implemented numerous lean and green sustainability processes that have seen huge reductions in not only their consumed resources, but also in lead times and inventory.
“By looking at your value stream, or your operations, from an environmental perspective, manufacturers can eliminate more waste and achieve dramatic savings,” says Wills.....
~to read full article...
Implementing_Lean_For_Green_Sustainability_Oct_2008 -PDF
By Amanda Earing, News Editor
Manufacturing.Net - October 17, 2008
SOURCE:http://www.manufacturing.net/Articles-Implementing-Lean-For-Green-Sustainability.aspx?menuid=24
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