Manufacturers can be green and highly profitable at the same time
Profits do not have to be sacrificed to environmental responsibility, or vice versa. Following this book's tested and proven approach, readers discover how to create and operate manufacturing facilities that are highly profitable while meeting or exceeding the environmental standards of their local community, state, and federal governments. The authors' approach is broad in scope, setting forth the roles and responsibilities of organizational functions such as marketing, product design, manufacturing technology, management, and human resources.
The book begins with an overview explaining why profitability and green manufacturing must be viewed as a single objective.
Next, the book becomes a "how to" guide to creating and maintaining an environmentally compliant and profitable manufacturing operation, with chapters covering:
* Manufacturing, waste, and regeneration
* Building a decision-making model
* Environmental regulation, standards, and profitability
* Case studies
* Tools used to improve manufacturing operations
* The facility
* Applying the profitable and compliant process chart
The final chapter is dedicated to a step-by-step approach in the application and use of the profitable and compliant process chart, a core working tool discussed in the book. In this chapter, several actual manufacturing applications, along with their worksheets, are presented to illustrate how this approach can minimize resources and waste. Armed with this comprehensive systems approach, readers will no longer view profitability and green manufacturing as two opposing goals. Instead, they'll have the tools and knowledge needed to create and maintain a manufacturing operation that is both profitable and green.
Autorentext
DAVID R. HILLIS, PhD, has more than thirty-five years of
experience in academia and private industry. Currently he is an
independent consultant who works with manufacturers to maximize
productivity and minimize waste. Hillis is coauthor of
Manufacturing Processes: Materials, Productivity, and Lean
Strategies; Manufacturing Processes: Automation, Materials, and
Packaging; and Waste Reduction Strategies for Fiberglass
Fabricators.
J. BARRY DuVALL, PhD, has more than forty years of
experience in industry and academia. He is currently a full
Professor in the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina
University. He has taught courses in many areas including
productivity improvement, manufacturing processes and materials,
digital communication, and technology management. Dr. DuVall is the
author or coauthor of Contemporary Manufacturing Processes;
Manufacturing Processes: Materials, Productivity, and Lean
Strategies; Manufacturing Processes: Automation, Materials, and
Packaging; and Getting the Message: the Technology of
Communications.
Zusammenfassung
Manufacturers can be green and highly profitable at the same time
Profits do not have to be sacrificed to environmental responsibility, or vice versa. Following this book's tested and proven approach, readers discover how to create and operate manufacturing facilities that are highly profitable while meeting or exceeding the environmental standards of their local community, state, and federal governments. The authors' approach is broad in scope, setting forth the roles and responsibilities of organizational functions such as marketing, product design, manufacturing technology, management, and human resources.
The book begins with an overview explaining why profitability and green manufacturing must be viewed as a single objective.
Next, the book becomes a "how to" guide to creating and maintaining an environmentally compliant and profitable manufacturing operation, with chapters covering:
- Manufacturing, waste, and regeneration
- Building a decision-making model
- Environmental regulation, standards, and profitability
- Case studies
- Tools used to improve manufacturing operations
- The facility
- Applying the profitable and compliant process chart
The final chapter is dedicated to a step-by-step approach in the application and use of the profitable and compliant process chart, a core working tool discussed in the book. In this chapter, several actual manufacturing applications, along with their worksheets, are presented to illustrate how this approach can minimize resources and waste. Armed with this comprehensive systems approach, readers will no longer view profitability and green manufacturing as two opposing goals. Instead, they'll have the tools and knowledge needed to create and maintain a manufacturing operation that is both profitable and green.
Inhalt
PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
1 MANUFACTURING 1
Introduction 1
Manufacturing Sequence 2
Product Life CyclesThere's More Than One 3
Life Cycle Analysis 4
Potential for Waste and Value Added in Manufacturing 9
Vertically versus Horizontally Integrated Manufacturing 11
Waste and Its Unexpected Sources 13
The First Source of Waste 14
The Second Source of Waste 17
The Third Source of Waste 19
A New ProductFirst Phase for Waste Reduction 20
Existing ProductsSecond Phase for Waste Reduction 22
Regeneration 24
Life Cycle of the Manufacturing Facility 25
Creating a Classifi cation System for a Compliant and Profitable Manufacturing System 27
Summary 29
Selected Bibliography 31
2 BUILDING A DECISION-MAKING MODEL 33
Introduction 33
Industrial Production and Manufacturing 34
Classifying Manufacturing Industries 38
Major Product Groups from NAICS 40
Material Stocks 51
Major Material Families 52
Basic Process Classifi cations 53
Forming Processes 55
Separating Processes 56
Joining Processes 57
Conditioning Processes 58
Finishing Processes 59
Design Template for Classifying Manufacturing Processes 60
It All Began in Sally's Garden 60
The Analysis 62
Next Steps 67
Selected Bibliography 68
3 ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, AND PROFITABILITY 69
Introduction 69
Organizing to ComplyThe Management Foundation 71
Formalizing the Management ApproachThe ISO Standards 73
ISO 14000 Series of Standards 74
Overview of Major Environmental Regulations 75
Clean Air Act Overview 77
Clean Water Act Overview 79
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Overview 81
SummaryCompliance Can Mean Profits 82
Selected Bibliography 84
4 CASE STUDIES 85
Introduction 85
Case Study 1 88
Introduction 88
Waste Minimization Programs 91
Reuse and Recycling Activities in the Office 92
Reduction and Reuse of Packaging 92
Comment 93
Case Study 2 93
Introduction 93
The Study and Methods Used 94
Conclusion 97
Comment 97
Case Study 3 98
Introduction 98
Description of the Manufacturing Operation 98
Manufacturing Operations and Sequence 99
Steps Taken to Lessen the Environmental Impact of the Manufacturing Facility 102
Material Waste Reduction 102
Resource Reduction 103
Methods the Company Uses to Identify and Make Improvements 104
Summary 105
Comment 106
Case Study 4 106
Introduction 107
Manufacturing Operations and Sequence 109
Steps Taken to Lessen the Environmental Impact of the Facility 111
Methods Used to Make Improvements 112
Examples of Waste Reduction …