External Article – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

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

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,

“Creating a Lean and Green Business System” earns 2014 Shingo Prize

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Posted on April 14, 2014May 27, 2024
Posted in Book Review, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management

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

Karen Hester of Adnams Reflects on “Creating a Lean and Green Business System”

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Posted on December 15, 2013May 27, 2024
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Management

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

Hyundai’s Corporate Social Responsiblity discussion with John Krafcik

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Posted on October 20, 2013May 20, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, External Article, Management, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Transportation

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

Lean and Green is Free, But its Not a Gift – Lean Blog

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Posted on October 11, 2013May 20, 2024
Posted in Energy, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Solid Waste, Water

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