Category: Lean Manufacturing

Waste minimization can protect the environment and often turns out to have positive economic benefits. Waste minimization can improve the following: Key Features: Industrial Environmental Management Process An industrial environmental management process (IEMP) and roles of environmental managers:

Waste reduction or minimization is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, waste minimization supports efforts to promote a more sustainable society. Waste reduction involves redesigning products and processes and/or changing societal patterns of consumption and production. The…

Industrial environmental managers (IEMs) working in manufacturing facility environmental programs are responsible for overall environmental management system (EMS) in a comprehensive, systematic, planned, and documented manner regarding waste minimization or reduction and compliance with environmental regulations and standards. These managers act as stewards of environmental ethics. The IEMs work closely within an environmental management process (EMP) team, including process…

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) created ISO 50001 as a voluntary energy management standard to help organizations use energy efficiently and cut cost. The US DOE developed the 50001 Ready recognition program as a way to guide organizations in setting up an energy management system using the ISO 50001 structure. 50001 Ready allows organization…

Appraisal costs are costs that occur because of the need to control products and services to ensure a high‐quality level in all stages, conformance to quality standards, and performance requirements. Examples include the costs for The total quality costs are then the sum of these costs. They represent the difference between the actual cost of…

Internal failure costs are costs that are caused by products or services not conforming to requirements or customer/user needs and are found before delivery of products and services to external customers. They would have otherwise led to the customer not being satisfied. Deficiencies are caused both by errors in products and by inefficiencies in processes.…

Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is a tool to determine the most cost‐effective option among different competing alternatives to manufacturing process, purchase, own, operate, maintain and, finally, dispose of an object or process, when each is equally appropriate to be implemented on technical grounds. For example, for a highway pavement, in addition to the initial…

The Toyota Way summarized the management principles of Toyota in a 4P model: Philosophy, Process, People, and Problem Solving (see Figure 8.21). The 4Ps form a pyramid, the foundation of which is a long‐term philosophy that focuses on adding value to customers and society. Building on that is Toyota’s investment in lean processes, which concentrates on shortening lead time by eliminating…

The design process that follows a spiral approach is preferable to the current “loops,” which represent feedback. That is, the client can infer that the design is progressing, but in order to incorporate various viewpoints, it is losing ground (and costing more money and time). Often, however, a synergetic and innovative design never goes backward.…