Hillis / DuVall Improving Profitability Through Green Manufacturing

Creating a Profitable and Environmentally Compliant Manufacturing Facility
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-39188-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hillis, David R.

DuVall, J. Barry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Manufacturing
Chapter 2 Building a Decision Making Model
Chapter 3 Environmental Regulation Standards and Profitability
Chapter 4 Case Studies
Chapter 6 The Facility
Chapter 7 Applying the Profitable & Compliant Process Chart
Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID R. HILLIS, PhD, has more than thirty-five years ofexperience in academia and private industry. Currently he is anindependent consultant who works with manufacturers to maximizeproductivity and minimize waste. Hillis is coauthor ofManufacturing Processes: Materials, Productivity, and LeanStrategies; Manufacturing Processes: Automation, Materials, andPackaging; and Waste Reduction Strategies for FiberglassFabricators.
J. BARRY DuVALL, PhD, has more than forty years ofexperience in industry and academia. He is currently a fullProfessor in the Department of Technology Systems at East CarolinaUniversity. He has taught courses in many areas includingproductivity improvement, manufacturing processes and materials,digital communication, and technology management. Dr. DuVall is theauthor or coauthor of Contemporary Manufacturing Processes;Manufacturing Processes: Materials, Productivity, and LeanStrategies; Manufacturing Processes: Automation, Materials, andPackaging; and Getting the Message: the Technology ofCommunications.