MT Magazine September/October 2023

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Lean and Green The mandates are clear: If you want to be a supplier to many major companies, then sign on to environmental practices. A great way to get started that can be hugely beneficial is to pull out that lean production manual that may be collecting dust on an office shelf.

BY GARY S. VASILASH CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

When the subject of the environment and sustainability comes up, some are all for it, while others, on their best behavior, roll their eyes and think, “I’ve got production schedules to meet; I don’t have time to do the things that people who don’t have the slightest idea about manufacturing think would be ‘good’ for me to do.” (Their less-than-best behavior would include an array of words that we can’t publish here.)