Lean Waste Stream: Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles - Softcover

Jensen, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482253178 ISBN 13: 9781482253177

Publisher: Productivity Press, 2014

Synopsis

The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean Waste Stream: Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles supplies an unprecedented look at how to address business waste in a manner that will improve your organization’s environmental and financial performance.

Tackling the problem of business garbage from a Lean perspective, the book maintains a focus on how to minimize garbage in ways that cut costs. It considers the problem of garbage in terms of transportation, inventory, and labor costs―with an effort to connect reductions in garbage production at all stages with lower operating costs and improved productivity.

Explaining how to use garbage analysis as a tool to identify the problems in process flow that produced the garbage, this book describes how to look downstream for options to reuse, repurpose, and recycle garbage to minimize landfill impact and costs. The text includes practical exercises with step-by-step instructions, as well as real-world examples that illustrate how specific wastes have been dealt with profitably by various organizations.

About this title

About the Author

Marc Jensen

From the Back Cover

Although there are many books available on personal efforts to reduce garbage, none exist that focus on business garbage. Filling this need, this book describes how to use garbage analysis as a tool to identify the problems in process flow that produced the garbage. It also explains how to look downstream for options to reuse, repurpose, and recycle garbage to minimize landfill impact and costs. The text includes practical exercises with step-by-step instructions, as well as real-world examples that demonstrate how specific wastes have been dealt with profitably by various organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482253178
• ISBN 13: 9781482253177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184