The Many Shades of Green

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (01) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
The Many ◽  
Reducing Energy

This review focuses on the fact that there are many ways to be green, and American manufacturers are trying them all. From reducing energy use and recycling water to implementing ISO 14001 sustainability programs and reusing packaging, US factories are embracing a more environmentally sensitive manufacturing ethos as fast as they can. There are many ways to be green. Ratcheting down energy use, for example, automatically reduces a plant’s carbon footprint, because either it burns less natural gas or it buys less electricity from a power plant that burns coal or gas. Companies around the nation have also turned their Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and other tools on solid waste. If a material does not add value to a product, they eliminate it. Many work with vendors to reduce packaging. The less packaging, the less energy is used in a product. Capital projects are even harder to push through, yet they are necessary for further gains once companies have plucked waste reduction’s low-hanging fruit.

THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF A BIOGAS POWER PLANT

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2867-2874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyorgy Szabo ◽  
Istvan Fazekas ◽  
Szilard Szabo ◽  
Gergely Szabo ◽  
Tamas Buday ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Carbon Footprint

scholarly journals A Framework for Assessing Commitment Indicators in Sustainable Development Decisions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5234
Author(s):  
Mustafa S. Al-Tekreeti ◽  
Salwa M. Beheiry ◽  
Vian Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Leaders ◽  
Corporate Decisions ◽  
Waste Energy ◽  
Infrastructure Project

Numerous decision support systems have been developed to address the decision-making process in organizations. However, there are no developed mechanisms to track commitment down the line to the decisions made by corporate leaders. This paper is a portion of a study that establishes a framework for a comprehensive metric system to assess commitment to Sustainable Development (SD) decisions down the line in capital projects, and sets the groundwork for further development of performance indicators for SD outcomes. This ultimately leads to investigating the relationship between commitment to corporate decisions and better project performance in SD parameters. Hence, this study explores the literature to extract relevant parameters that reflect the degree of the project participants’ commitment to SD decisions and to develop commitment indicators. The study created then validated an index to track this commitment along the project stages: the Sustainable Development Commitment Tracking Tool (SDCTT). The SDCTT was tested on an infrastructure project case study. In this paper, techniques relevant to the first stage of projects (planning and definition) are presented. The SDCTT is the groundwork for the future development of performance indicators for SD outcomes, and within the postulated model should ultimately contribute towards reducing project waste, energy use, and carbon emissions.

scholarly journals Energy budget and carbon footprint in a wheat and maize system under ridge furrow strategy in dry semi humid areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changjiang Li ◽  
Shuo Li
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Energy Budget ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Energy Productivity ◽  
Carbon Efficiency ◽  
Net Returns

AbstractThe well-irrigated planting strategy (WI) consumes a large amount of energy and exacerbates greenhouse gas emissions, endangering the sustainable agricultural production. This 2-year work aims to estimate the economic benefit, energy budget and carbon footprint of a wheat–maize double cropping system under conventional rain-fed flat planting (irrigation once a year, control), ridge–furrows with plastic film mulching on the ridge (irrigation once a year, RP), and the WI in dry semi-humid areas of China. Significantly higher wheat and maize yields and net returns were achieved under RP than those under the control, while a visible reduction was found for wheat yields when compared with the WI. The ratio of benefit: cost under RP was also higher by 10.5% than that under the control in the first rotation cycle, but did not differ with those under WI. The net energy output and carbon output followed the same trends with net returns, but the RP had the largest energy use efficiency, energy productivity carbon efficiency and carbon sustainability among treatments. Therefore, the RP was an effective substitution for well–irrigated planting strategy for achieving sustained agricultural development in dry semi-humid areas.

Process Improvement of Brake Lever Production Using DMAIC (+)

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chittaranjan Sahay ◽  
Suhash Ghosh ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Bheemarthi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Process Improvement ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
Automotive Components ◽  
The Cost

This work describes a strategy to reduce the cost associated with poor quality, by reducing the parts per million defects by Defining, Measuring, Analyzing, Implementing and Controlling (DMAIC) the production process. The method uses a combination of principles of Six Sigma applications, Lean Manufacturing and Shanin Strategy. The process has been used in analyzing the manufacturing lines of a brake lever at a Connecticut automotive components manufacturing company for reducing the cost associated with the production of nonconforming parts. The analysis was carried out with the help of the data collected on nonconformance parts and the application of phase change rules from DMAIC (+). Data analysis was carried out on statistical process control softwares, MINITAB and SPC XL 2000. Although, the problem of tight bushing existed on only one line of the brake lever assembly, this problem solving approach has solved the tight bushing problems on all assembly and alternates lines in a time- and cost-effective way.

scholarly journals The Key Success Factors for Lean Manufacturing versus Six Sigma

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Alhuraish ◽  
Christian Robledo ◽  
Abdessamad Kobi
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Key Success Factors

scholarly journals Reduction Waste by Combining Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in an Electronics Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 1558-1562 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Prieto-avalos ◽  
C.R. Navarro-gonzalez ◽  
A. Gonzalez-angeles ◽  
S.V. Medina-leon
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Electronics Industry

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI KONSEP LEAN MANUFACTURING GUNA MENGURANGI PEMBOROSAN DI LANTAI PRODUKSI

OPSI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almer Panji Pradana ◽  
Mochammad Chaeron ◽  
Muhammad Shodiq Abdul Khanan
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Lean Six Sigma ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Value Stream ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Big Picture

CV Marga Jaya (Pabrik II) adalah perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang pembuatan paving/conblock secara masal. CV Marga Jaya (Pabrik II) selalu berusaha mengurangi pemborosan yang terjadi selama proses produksi paving/conblock. Pemborosan yang terjadi antari lain, adanya produksi berlebih, transportasi, waktu menunggu, dan cacat yang berlebih.  Lean Manufacaturing merupakan pendekatan yang bertujuan untuk merampingkan proses dengan mengurangi pemborosan yang terjadi selama proses produksi. Pendekatan konsep lean manufacturing dimulai dengan membuat big picture mapping, dilanjutkan dengan waste assessment model (WAM), diagram cause and effects, value stream analysis tools (VALSAT), usulan perbaikan waste yang terjadi, dan pembuatan descrete event simulation (DES). Hasil yang didapat bahwa waktu menunggu yang terjadi diperbaiki dengan menggunakan conveyor, produksi berlebih yang terjadi diperbaiki dengan melakukan perencanaan produksi, dan cacat berlebih yang terjadi diperbaiki dengan menggunakan 5W+1H dengan sebelumnya menggunakan konsep lean six sigma dan didapat nilai sigma sebesar 4,31 sigma. Simulasi proses menunjukkan dengan mengurangi pemborosan, kemampuan produksi naik 15,36% (penjemuran 30 hari) dan 147,20% (penjemuran 7 hari).

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