Wasted Food – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

Distillery reduces overfill saving $800K per year

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Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025
Posted in Raw Materials, Wasted Food

A distillery wanted to eliminate MAV (Maximum Allowable Variation) violations and reduce overfill waste without compromising quality. They looked at implementing statistical process control (SPC) into their operations to better monitor and control the variation. SPC gave them real-time alerts on quality issues and process variation and made it easier to collect the data (moving

E129: Reducing Malnutrition in South Sudan with Chelsie Azevedo

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Posted on October 8, 2025October 10, 2025
Posted in Employee Engagement, Healthcare, Land and Building Use, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Wasted Food

In this episode, I share an interview with Chelsie Azevedo, who has a masters in Public Health and is a Registered Dietician (RD), and was previously the Nutrition Technical Advisor for Rise Against Hunger. She shares the story of a powerful multi-year project she helped lead in South Sudan with students at Hope for South

E124: Applying Data to Food Quality and Safety with Eric Moore

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Posted on April 22, 2025April 22, 2025
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Wasted Food

In this episode, I share an interview with Eric Moore, Global Director of Food Safety & Industry Outreach at Testo Solutions, where we discuss Food Safety and Quality, Sustainability, and Innovative Data Monitoring. Eric delves into his extensive 25-year career in food safety, beginning with his education in hospitality at Penn State University and his

E120: Tackling Green with Lean – Lean Global Connection 2024

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Posted on December 16, 2024December 5, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Wasted Food, Water

In this episode, I share a presentation that the Lean Sustainability Global Network (an unofficial team that I’m involved with) gave at the Lean Global Connection virtual conference in Nov 2024. We share how Lean principles can be applied to tackle pressing environmental challenges and improve processes. For example, Lean and Green expands the traditional

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

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