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Going Green - Get ISO certified and build a powerful competitive advantage! Achieve Process Excellence Using Less Energy There are at least three good reasons and benefits connected with integrating and coordinating Lean and Energy Efficiency Management: These benefits are for you: 1. Cost Savings: Reducing energy costs has a significant impact on business performance, though costs may be hidden in overhead or facility accounts. 2. Reduce your Climate Change and Environmental Risk: Proactively addressing the environmental and climate impacts of energy use is increasingly important to industry and society. Failure to do so is a potential business risk. 3. Competitive Advantage: Lowering recurring operating costs, improving staff morale, and responding to customer expectations for environmental performance and energy effi ciency increases your competitive advantage. Example Results From Lean and Energy Improvement Efforts: » A Baxter International facility saved $300,000 in energy costs in one year. » General Electric has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 250,000 metric tons and saved $70 million in energy costs since 2005 at facilities worldwide. » Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America reduced facility energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent per vehicle since 2000. There are a range of strategies for identifying Lean and energy improvement opportunities and reducing energy use with Lean methods. It is not necessary for you to implement all the techniques into your corporated guidelines to succeed; instead, we can help you to select and adapt the approaches that make the most sense for your organization. Our Lean and Energy Assessment Strategies Lean and energy assessment strategies involve observing shopfloor activities to identify signs of energy waste, measuring actual energy use and costs over time, and implementing energy savings opportunities through short, focused events. Strategies include: • Energy Treasure Hunts: Conduct a three-day plant-wide assessment of energy savings opportunities using a cross-functional team of employees. • Value and Energy Stream Mapping: Integrate energy-use analysis into the Lean value stream mapping process to identify improvement opportunities within the context of the entire “value stream” of a product or service. • Six Sigma: Use statistical process analysis and control tools to find and address root causes of energy wastes and variation. • Energy Kaizen Events: Identify and implement employee ideas for saving energy and reducing wastes through rapid process improvement events. Our Lean and Energy Reduction Strategies: Many energy efficiency best practices can be implemented without extensive analysis or planning. Our Lean and energy reduction strategies describe ways to reduce energy use through Lean activities such as the following: • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Incorporate energy reduction best practices into day-to-day autonomous maintenance activities to ensure that equipment and processes run smoothly and effi ciently. • Right-Sized Equipment: Replace oversized and inefficient equipment with smaller equipment tailored to the specific needs of your manufacturing cells. • Plant Layout and Flow: Design or rearrange plant layout to improve product flow while also reducing energy use and associated impacts. • Standard Work, Visual Controls, and Mistake-Proofing: Sustain and support additional Lean and energy performance gains through standardized work procedures and visual signals that encourage energy conservation, and by making it easy or “mistake-proof” to be energy effi cient. Maximizing your Lean and Energy Improvement Opportunities In addition to explicitly using Lean methods to target energy wastes, facilities can take advantage of other windows of opportunity for energy savings that arise during Lean, including opportunities to install energy-effi cient equipment, switch to less polluting fuel sources, and design products to use less energy. To be most effective, Lean and energy efforts should be proactive, strategic, and systematic. Adopting an energy management system that aligns with and supports your organization’s Lean initiatives will enable your organization to achieve the greatest improvements in operational, energy, and environmental performance. Do you want to read more about GOING GREEN ? Click here and we direct you to our partner website with extensive literature about going green, just click on the link: GREEN IT ! You can download there also a free copy of the new Carbon Footprint Calculator and get to grips with Green IT. You can measure your CO2 output and get practical guidance on how to reduce your carbon footprint. 'Green IT' is a catch-all phrase for sustainable, eco-friendly products, services, practices and management systems used in the information and communications technology sector. Greater environmental awareness coupled with pressures from consumers, legislators, and rising fuel costs, is pushing the IT community towards Green IT. 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