What is the Lean and Environment Toolkit?

The NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide toolkits designed to help manufacturing companies reduce energy waste, align production with environmental performance metrics and reduce environmental risk with manufacturing chemicals.

The Lean and Environment Toolkit

The Lean and Environment Toolkit offers practical techniques and strategies that can help lean, environmental, and other specialists at your shop floor to deliver environmentally protective lean decisions as a routine task of your lean driven business operations. In fact, this toolkit draws heavily from the experience of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) partners and organizations who have pioneered integrated approaches to lean and environmental decision making while at the same time delivering world class performance, exerting market leadership, and achieving bottom line results.

This toolkit is written for lean operational managers, environmental practitioners, and lean practitioners who work towards organizational efforts to identify and eliminate environmental wastes. As a result, the toolkit may help align your environmental management system’s goals and objectives as a routine task of your lean initiatives and business decisions.

The Toolkit focuses on the identification and how to pursue environmental end points in your processes through Kaizen Events, 6S (5S + Safety); and Value Stream Mapping. This toolkit assumes that you are familiar with Lean methods.   

For a copy of the Lean and Environment Toolkit, please email merrily@camt.com with your name, company, and mailing address. 

For more information, please contact CAMT at 303.592.4087 or here.