Improving Profitability Through Green Manufacturing (eBook)

Creating a Profitable and Environmentally Compliant Manufacturing Facility

David R. Hillis, J. Barry DuVall (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012 | 1. Auflage
248 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-39188-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"I highly recommend the holistic and knowledge building
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Profitability Through Green Manufacturing: Creating a Profitable
and Environmentally Compliant Manufacturing Facility by
David R. Hillis, Ph.D. and J. Barry DuVall, Ph.D., to any business
leaders, manufacturers, design specialists, building and plant
builders, public policy makers, environmental groups, practicing
engineers, engineering and manufacturing students, elected
officials, and anyone interested in green manufacturing who are
seeking a clear and concise road map to establishing and
maintaining a complete system that is profitable and
environmentally sustainable. This book will change your mind
forever about profit and the environment as green manufacturing
works for both goals." (Money Talks, 4 November
2012)

"I highly recommend the holistic and knowledge building
book href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118111257,descCd-authorInfo.html">Improving
Profitability Through Green Manufacturing: Creating a Profitable
and Environmentally Compliant Manufacturing Facility by
David R. Hillis, Ph.D. and J. Barry DuVall, Ph.D., to any business
leaders, manufacturers, design specialists, building and plant
builders, public policy makers, environmental groups, practicing
engineers, engineering and manufacturing students, elected
officials, and anyone interested in green manufacturing who are
seeking a clear and concise road map to establishing and
maintaining a complete system that is profitable and
environmentally sustainable. This book will change your mind
forever about profit and the environment as green manufacturing
works for both goals." (Blog Business World, 4
November 2012)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
• Schlagworte: Anlagenplanung • chemical engineering • Chemie • Chemische Verfahrenstechnik • Chemische Verfahrenstechnik / Theorie, Planung u. Management • Chemistry • Industrial Engineering • Industrial Engineering / Manufacturing • Industrielle Verfahrenstechnik • Nachhaltige u. Grüne Chemie • Nachhaltige u. Grüne Chemie • Produktion i. d. Industriellen Verfahrenstechnik • Sustainable Chemistry & Green Chemistry • Theory, Planning & Management
• ISBN-10: 1-118-39188-8 / 1118391888
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-39188-4 / 9781118391884