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Lean to Green Sustainability Tech Groupwww.sme.org/leantogreenThis group helps members face the challenges of a sustainable future for global manufacturing using the lessons of lean to advance learning and innovation across industry. Its focus is on people, good jobs, thriving communities and most importantly, greening the economy and environment. Using lean principles, such as continuous improvement, this group will identify what is valuable, eliminate waste and embed learning cycles that can be used in everyday work processes.
Lean to Green Webinar Series Title: Greening a Product Lifecycle ... and Making Money at It! The HP Experience Presenter: Christian Verstraete, Chief Technologist, Manufacturing & Distribution Industries Division, Hewlett-Packard Synopsis: Green products start at the R&D phase, as 80 percent of the environmental characteristics of the product are fixed even before the first prototype is built. It is important to take a holistic viewpoint at the overall product lifecycle, but at each step understand how things can be done "greener." Through practical examples, this webinar will demonstrate how costs can be reduced, revenues increased and risks mitigated by taking a green approach. Lean concepts complement this by reducing the waste generated across the lifecycle. PDF • Audio Title: Quantifying Triple Bottom Line Thinking Title: Lean to Green Manufacturing – EPA Carbon Footprinting Tool Visit SME's Webinar Central for a complete list of upcoming webinars. You can also access SME's webinar archives, which has a variety of topics, including webinars on lean to green manufacturing. Additional lean to green webinars are in development, building on the great success of the 2008 series, which covered the 5Ws and 1H of the lean and green journey. If you have a case study or subject demonstrating experiences integrating lean and green that you think might serve as a good webinar topic, contact one of our tech group co-chairs with your idea. In the News
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*This program was discussed in more detail during the first 2009 lean to green webinar — "Lean to Green Manufacturing – EPA Carbon Footprinting." NOTE: Just announced, The Virtual Energy Forum returns January 27-28, 2010. Experience two days of live online video presentations focusing on the key issues surrounding renewable energy along with virtual booths dedicated to renewable energy products and services, FREE on your computer. Lean to Green Manufacturing Conference At SME's Lean to Green Manufacturing Conference, Sept. 28-30, 2009, in Austin, Texas, the Lean to Green Sustainability Tech Group helped advance learning and collaboration. The U.S. Environmental Agency hosted a pre-conference workshop to solicit ideas and feedback from industry experts and practitioners, which created more positive synergy and shared learning/application tools. The EPA's Chris Reed reports: "The turnout for the meeting was much greater than we expected, and everyone who participated had great ideas that are fodder for future ongoing discussions. In the coming months we look forward to hosting follow-up conference calls to discuss many of these ideas in depth. A meeting summary (PDF) was prepared by our facilitators, Ross & Associates." It is great to see that the contributing participants included collaborators from this tech group, NIST/MEP practitioners from around the country, industry practitioners and event presenters/participants. This builds very nicely on the foundational work going back to our first strategy session in 2007 (described below). Additionally, Robert W. (Doc) Hall, PhD, one of our key collaborators from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, has further refined his understanding of the lean, green, sustainability convergence in a new book entitled "Compression: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability Through Vigorous Learning Enterprises". Hall participated in our 2007 strategy session, and in his new book, you will see that the 2007 graphic of an "autonomous learning organization" is now a core theme in this publication. He also presented at the September Lean to Green Conference and participated in the EPA workshop referenced above. The 2008-09 Lean to Green Webinar Series and related events, including SME's annual lean to green manufacturing event, the Lean and Green Resource Centers at EASTEC and the annual Lean and Green Summit, grew with the help of many members and partners of this tech group. This group's strategy continues to evolve with each implementation cycle (PDCA). Great things come from often simple beginnings. By reviewing the tech group's notes (PDF) and graphic (PDF), you can see how much the strategy has evolved since 2007; however, we still have a lot to do in 2010. One frequently voiced suggestion is to provide practitioners with better tools to help them state their case. For example, practitioners report they frequently have problems demonstrating the financial benefits of lean and/or green improvements. Laura Rauwerda of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality provided insight on the We have also heard from longtime SME member David Dornfeld, PhD, FSME, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2004 SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal winner. Dornfeld offers an insightful sustainable manufacturing blog to share concepts and learning. He currently leads the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability at UC Berkeley. Dornfeld is also collaborating with Phil Coy (a recent SME webinar and event presenter) in a series of webinars on sustainable manufacturing. To learn more, visit Coy's Future State Solutions web site for details. Do you believe in the power of collaboration? All of the above events, webinars, etc., are brought to you through collaboration of purposeful people trying to do things together that they could not advance alone. This is the real purpose of SME — Where Manufacturing Comes Together. You can help too! Event Wrap-Up The 2009 Lean and Green Summit was held June 8-9, 2009, in Savannah, Ga. Regular updates on the summit, including photos, are offered, as well as a video of the 2008 Lean and Green Summit. Additional Resources Lean to Green Course(s)Who says you can't go to Harvard? Tech Group advisor, Robert Pojasek, PhD, will soon be teaching a Harvard extension course — "Strategies for Sustainability Management." The extension courses are open enrollment with a distance learning (virtual) option. This particular course will include a lean to green lecture from Bruce Hamilton of GBMP Inc. Classes begin January 25, 2010. Anyone interested can register online and view the course syllabus.Presentations, Glossary & Case Studies |
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