As someone who is conscientious of wasting paper, I struggle with conducting lean events with the vast amounts of "butcher"...
Raw Materials
Green Your Work was written by Kim Carlson, who has led several different businesses through a green transformation, and well...
Lean and Six Sigma are established approaches to improving processes to make organizations more successful. It seems only natural that...
I was fortunate to take a tour of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) facility in Georgetown, KY. I say...
My background in statistics and Six Sigma was what started me down the path of process improvement. Later on, I...
Portland is leading the charge once again. In 2006, the Portland Office of Sustainable Development (now the Portland Bureau of Planning...
The best way to convince your management to embrace sustainability is to show the success of others, especially competitors and...
Product designers have many different requirements and stakeholders to consider. Design for the Environment (DfE) criteria may appear to be...
Visual controls are an important part of any process. One of the best examples I have seen was at a...
I had the opportunity to tour one of the LEED certified buildings on the Rockwell Collins campus in Cedar Rapids,...