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Boeing Solid Waste to Landfill Sorting Event (Dumpster Dive) at Everett from April 2015

This video was posted on the Boeing website in 2015 to share a trash (waste) sort event at their Everett facility with their 747, 767, 777 and 787 production lines. The goal was to collect data and determine which team is diverting the most trash from the landfill. The winning team was the 777 program,
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“Creating a Lean and Green Business System” earns 2014 Shingo Prize

The Shingo Institute has awarded Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood and Peter Hines with the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for their work “Creating a Lean and Green Business: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability.”   Creating a Lean and Green Business System is an excellent book that demonstrates the close link between eliminating
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Karen Hester of Adnams Reflects on “Creating a Lean and Green Business System”

Reflecting on the book ‘Creating a Lean and Green Business Systems: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability’ describing how Mr Ford and Mr Toyoda came up with the original idea of “LEAN management”, to improve manufacturing processes, it is apparent that the systems have gone far beyond the original concept now reflecting Corporate Social Responsibility
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Hyundai’s Corporate Social Responsiblity discussion with John Krafcik

In an interview with John Krafcik is best known for coming up with the term “Lean” during his time at MIT, as part of a research team comparing American and Japanese automobile manufacturing. He joined Hyundai in 2004 as vice president of Product Development and Strategic Planning after tenures at Ford Motor Company and the
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Lean and Green is Free, But its Not a Gift – Lean Blog

In this article, Keivan Zokaei shares his thoughts on Mark Graban’s Lean Blog site. He says that the environmental movement is heading down the same path as the quality movement did in the 1980’s. A famous book from Philip Crosby in 1980 was called “Quality is free: The Art of Making Quality Certain”. He reminds
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Toyota’s Monozukuri – Book compendium to “Lean and Green Business System”

Toyota can easily be the most storied company in the world. For decades it has caught the imagination of managers around the world becoming an emblematic case for quality, reliability, productivity, employee engagement, continuous improvement, cost reduction and market capitalization growth. Toyota Production System (TPS) is synonymous with efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction and in
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Can Lean Be Green? Interview with Keivan Zokaei

Michael Sinocchi interviewed Keivan Zokaei about his book, Creating a Lean and Green Business System” in a blog article from May 2013. Keivan was headed to the IIE Annual Conference in Puerto Rico to give a presentation and hold a book signing. He asked him “why should companies bother incorporating sustainability and ‘green’ aspects into
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Creating a Lean and Green Business System – 2degrees Network

Keivan Zokaei says businesses can no longer treat lean and green as a “nice to have” but it is now a “must have” and should be a top priority. His new book, “Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Increasing Profits and Sustainability”, is packed with case studies and examples of leading firms
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Saving Two Fully Laden Jumbo Jets Worth of Material at Greencore

Three case studies were put together by S A Partners and Keivan Zokaei at the Greencore Food to Go Manton Wood factory in the UK, which is the world’s largest and most sophisticated sandwich manufacturing facility. They produced more than three million sandwiches every week for supermarkets, convenience stores, garage forecourts and coffee shop chains.
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Lean and Green Improvement for the Whole Supply Chain

A large retail business was looking to reduce its environmental impact throughout the entire supply chain (from raw material production to product manufacturing to distribution and sales throughout the UK), and reached out to S A Partners and Keivan Zokaei for assistance, using their Lean and Green approach. They selected a single Stock Keeping Unit
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