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EC 028: Interview with Kelly Singer from Lean Green Institute in France

January 9, 2018

Summary In this podcast, I talk with Kelly Singer. She works at Institut Lean France and she started a group...

"Lean and sustainability are conceptually similar. Both seek to maximize first quality product (or first-pass yield) and margin. This is accomplished through waste and time minimization. In green language, both seek to maximize system boundary efficiency. The difference lies in where this system (or process) boundary is drawn and how, and in how waste is defined. Lean sees waste as non-value added to the customer; green sees waste as extraction and consequential disposal of resources at rates or in forms beyond that which nature can absorb."
- Dave Gustashaw and Robert W. Hall, AME Target Magazine 2008

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