Employee Engagement – Page 9 – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

Saving Two Fully Laden Jumbo Jets Worth of Material at Greencore

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Posted on February 28, 2013May 20, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Solid Waste

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.

A Lean Laboratory ‘Goes Green’

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Posted on July 1, 2010May 20, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Solid Waste

The clinical laboratory at Children’s Medical Center (CMC) in Dallas, Texas has fully embraced LEAN by decreasing waste (muda) in order to increase value for patients. They decided to form a “LEAN Green Team” and took the concepts of recycle, reuse, and reduce and applied them to various areas within the lab. They have nourished its

Is Lean Green? Is This The Right Question?

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Posted on March 1, 2010May 27, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Solid Waste

In an article written in the Lean Management Journal in March 2010 (Issue 3, March/April), author Keivan Zokaei discusses how companies are making the connection between their Lean and continuous improvement and the sustainability movement driven by their customers, owners and employees. He makes the following statements: You can read the entire article at https://web.archive.org/web/20160815134541/http://leanandgreenbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Is-Lean-Green.pdf