External Article – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

DuPont Building Innovations: A Case Study in Achieving Zero Landfill

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Posted on November 14, 2024November 14, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Pollutants, Solid Waste

DuPont Building Innovations, a leader in sustainable building solutions, demonstrates that environmental responsibility aligns with business growth and innovation. Their commitment to zero landfill reflects a core value and contributes to their market differentiation. In 2008, Building Innovations produced 81 million pounds of landfill at 15 locations, a volume equivalent to nearly 16,000 cars or

The pursuit of eggscellence – Planet Lean

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Posted on September 18, 2024September 18, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Raw Materials, Wasted Food

Two egg omelette restaurants run by Nima and Faraz Ghorbani in The Netherlands utilize Lean to successfully grow their business, thanks to the training and coaching they received from René Aernoudts of the Lean Management Instituut. One of their challenges was to improve cleaning and operational efficiency. Different equipment and brands made it challenging, so

How Tuinderij Vers is learning to see and reducing food waste – Planet Lean

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Posted on May 23, 2024May 24, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Solid Waste, Wasted Food

Faced with increased production volumes for processed vegetables, this Dutch company realized the need to improve its processes by developing people skills. In September 2023, the leadership team participated in a Black Belt course with Lean Management Instituut. The next step was to involve front-line staff through an Orange Belt course. Here are some of

Conserve Your Energy – How Quality Practitioners Can Help Reduce Energy Costs (ASQ)

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Posted on May 11, 2024May 11, 2024
Posted in Energy, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management

ISO 50001:2018—Energy management can help your organization create an approach to assessing its energy practices through PDCA and continuous improvement tools. While many organizations suffer from the unexamined and wasteful costs of energy consumption as part of their hidden factory, many don’t have trained staff to help assess and reduce these costs. Unfortunately, they miss

Sofa manufacturer deploys Lean to reduce glue and electricity – Kaizen Institute

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Posted on January 11, 2024May 11, 2024
Posted in Energy, External Article, Raw Materials

A company aimed to increase mattress production efficiency, eliminate component overproduction in the sofa manufacturing process, and significantly reduce workplace accidents. In addition, they were looking to increase sustainability and business growth by implenting Lean. They focused on optimizing glue usage and electricity consumption. They reduced material waste by 2%, eliminated excess components by 95%, and

Growing sustainably with Lean Thinking

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Posted on December 8, 2023May 11, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Solid Waste

Norwegian furniture manufacturer Haugstad Møbel expanded its lean transformation and employee engagement efforts towards the future. They were able to transform their culture and unlock the potential of sustainable product growth through a program to teach the next generation how to re-sell, re-furbish, and re-use furniture. Circular HUB is a learning factory where kids aged

Using Lean to meet basic needs in society – Lean Global Connection

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Posted on December 1, 2023November 28, 2024
Posted in External Article, Nonprofit, Solid Waste, Wasted Food

In the 2023 Lean Global Connection, a panel discussion was organized to discuss the use of Lean to assist with basic needs and societal challenges such as hunger, healthcare and unemployment. The discussion features four panelists from diverse fields: The panelists strongly believe in the immense potential of lean thinking and practice to address complex

Can lean help battle climate change? – Lean Global Connection

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Posted on December 1, 2023November 28, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, External Article, Raw Materials, Solid Waste

In the 2023 Lean Global Connection, a panel discussion was organized to discuss the use of Lean to combat climate change and reduce carbon emissions. A few themes emerged. While lean does not automatically equate to green practices, its principles and tools can significantly contribute to environmental sustainability. Sustainability is no longer about convincing people

Lean makes our economy more responsible – the SunPower story [Planet Lean]

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Posted on May 17, 2016May 15, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools

SunPower is a vertically integrated solar company that designs and manufactures solar cells and panels for residential roofs, commercial buildings and wholesale power plants. They share how they merge the circular economy with lean principles to help reduce their impact on the environment. With a strong semiconductor background, they already had a strong foundation for

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

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Posted on May 16, 2015May 16, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Solid Waste

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,