Green Manufacturing

By Jennifer Tran OISM 470 W Section 3

Topic Overview
What is green manufacturing? Goals

Why green manufacturing.

Benefits

Topic Overview
How it works? Different Aspects

Example in the real world.

Summary

What is green manufacturing?

Method for manufacturing that minimizes

waste and pollution achieved through product and process design.

Philosophy rather than an adopted process

or standard.

Green Manufacturings Goal

The goal of sustainability.

Every company when it comes to green manufacturing should be conserving natural resources for future generations.

Why Green Manufacturing?

Manufacturers Responsibilities

Where does a manufacturers responsibility end? What is an acceptable level of toxic emission?

Benefits Of Green Manufacturing

Creates a great reputation to the public. Saves useless cost.

Promotes Research and Design.

Process of Green Manufacturing

Companies move from traditional end-of-

pipe control to new technologies.

End-Of-Life Management

Process of Green Manufacturing

Waste source reduction on the spot. Recycling

Virgin Materials are recycled

Process of Green Manufacturing

Invest in production process

improvements rather than control technology.

$7.2 billion spent by corporate companies in reducing pollution of which $3.2 billion was used for pollution process enhancement.

Richard Florida, California Management, v39, (Fall 1996):p80-105

Process of Green Manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing systems

promotes green design and production strategies.

Development of innovative manufacturing

systems.

Process of Green Manufacturing

Reduction in leapfrogging from lily pad to

lily pad. (Bergstrom, 50)

Substitute renewable sources for finite

ones.
Funding research facilities.

Process of Green Manufacturing

Employee Recycling. Companies must decide whether to make-

or-buy.

Different Aspects
JIT Manufacturing Zero Emission Strategy ISO 9000 and ISO 14000

What is JIT Manufacturing?

JIT Manufacturing

Aspect of Supply Chain Management Emphasis on continuous cost reduction and quality improvement

What is Zero Emission?

Zero Emission

Elimination of all environmentally damaging by products from the production process. 16% of companies actively pursuing zero emission. 85% of companies are pursuing reduced emission strategies.

Richard Florida, California Management, v39, (Fall 1996):80-105

What is ISO 9000 and ISO 14000?

International Quality Standards used by

companies on a voluntary basis.

Motivates changes Companies is following quality standards

that are recognized.

Example of Green Manufacturing

Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company

produces lawn mowers and bicycles

Wanted to develop ways of reducing scrap

metal.

Murray Ohio Manufacturing

Used a chlorinated oil with an additive of

graphite to create heightened lubricity.

Oil was used as a stamping lubricant
Looked at two different chemicals

Dry Coating Product Coldkote

Murray Ohio Manufacturing

Dry Coating Product

Required machinery needed 400ft in length. Teflon coating that the product left made the sheets more slippery. Cost of machinery was high.

ColdKote
System was 10ft in length. Non-oil lubricant Cost of machinery had a payback of six months.

Coldkote the winner

The benefits of Coldkote

scrap metal went from 9% to 1/10 of 1%. Tool life increased 30-50%. Polish time went from 3-4days to once a day.

Green Manufacturing
Coldkote

Green Manufacturing

The removal of Coldkote was used with a warm alkaline bath. Coldkote becomes a solid compound once its applied therefore reducing the amount of spilling and dripping. Non-oil lubricant reduces toxicity of companys waste stream.

Are you an expert on Green Manufacturing?

What is one of the benefit for green

manufacturing?
Green manufacturing includes employees.

True or False. Explain.

Why should your company even think about

green manufacturing?

Answers for the non-experts.

One of the benefits of green manufacturing

would be reducing cost because in the end the company may not have to shell out money to remove the waste when waste has already been eliminated on the first step. ( Zero Emission Strategy )

Answers for the non-experts.

Employees are included in every step of the

green manufacturing process. In order to have better quality which is linked to better manufacturing services, employees must be involved from the designing of the process to just recycling office materials.

Answers for the non-expert

A company should consider green

manufacturing because it makes their standards a little higher in quality than others. Saving cost and increasing production could also be an incentive for a company to even think about green manufacturing.

Summary
Green manufacturing is the elimination of

waste through the production process.

Companies must step up and take

responsibility for their actions.

End-of-life management used more often

then end-of-pipe control.

Summary
Green manufacturing promotes innovative

design.
Processes such as JIT and zero emission

should be exercised by all companies.

Green manufacturing saves cost but more

importantly it saves valuable resources.

Bibliography
Bergstrom, Robin. Fighting the Good Fight at Northrop, Manufacturing Management, v103, Nov1991. Bergstrom, Robin. On Giving Due Thought to Afterthought, Manufacturing Management, v103, Nov1991. Bergstrom, Robin. Stamping Made Cleaner, Manufacturing Management, v103, Nov1991

Bibliography
Florida, Richard, The move to environmentally conscious manufacturing, California Management, vol39no1, Fall 1996. Gerngross, Tillman. Green Manufacturing can be worse for environment, Daily University Science News, Aug 24, 1999.