The green factory: creating lean and sustainable manufacturing

This book proposes a new model, the Lean and Green Business Model (L&GBM), where the environmental aspect of sustainability is integrated with lean thinking to create a way of thinking that contributes to and balances the three sustainability dimensions of people, profit, and planet. The model uses a kaizen approach to help readers improve mass and energy flows in manufacturing environments that already possess a deployment level in applying lean. It tells the story of how GKN, a major British multinational corporation with operations in more than 30 countries, developed and implemented a lean and green business model in two of its automotive facilities in Brazil. It covers the corporate issues of balancing profit with environmental concern and the behavioral issues of engaging the workforce to identify and reduce environmental waste. --
Abstract: This book proposes a new model, the Lean and Green Business Model (L&GBM), where the environmental aspect of sustainability is integrated with lean thinking to create a way of thinking that contributes to and balances the three sustainability dimensions of people, profit, and planet. The model uses a kaizen approach to help readers improve mass and energy flows in manufacturing environments that already possess a deployment level in applying lean. It tells the story of how GKN, a major British multinational corporation with operations in more than 30 countries, developed and implemented a lean and green business model in two of its automotive facilities in Brazil. It covers the corporate issues of balancing profit with environmental concern and the behavioral issues of engaging the workforce to identify and reduce environmental waste