The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers on its website a wide array of resources -- from publications and reports to case studies -- for integrating and maximizing the environmental benefits of lean. Most notably, the agency features its Shingo Prize-winning Lean Manufacturing and the Environment report from October 2003. This report was crucial in establishing the relationship between lean and the environment because it was one of the first official documents that pointed out opportunities for further enhancing organizations’ environmental performance through their lean initiatives.
In addition, the case studies illustrate examples from many different industries, but one of the important facts about many of these initiatives is that the implementation of lean concepts and tools resulted in improvements in environmental performance even when lean activities were not initiated for environmental reasons.
Has your organization experienced environmental benefits through its lean initiative? Have any readers used these EPA resources? If so, please post your thoughts.
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