This full-day, interactive workshop reveals the hidden and costly wastes often overlooked in organizations. By using a real facility facing real challenges, participants will gain hands on training in a simple and systematic process for eliminating waste that can protect margins while increasing profitability and competitiveness. By focusing on the reduction and avoidance of costs, as seen through an interactive tour of a local facility, this workshop will provide basic tools to quickly realize both short-term and long-term benefits that yield immediate savings while putting in place commonsense structures to ensure future savings by moving towards sustainability.

The practical and hands-on design of this workshop is based on familiar Lean Thinking to make previously ignored wastes visible by applying today’s valuable environmental spot light. The step-by-step process used describes how to identify, measure, and move toward the elimination of the 7 key environmental wastes of Energy, Water, Materials, Garbage, Transportation, Emissions and Biodiversity which consume significant resources in most companies and now must be addressed.

Upon completion of this course, participants will:

1. Be familiar with the end game of going green – business sustainment through Environmental Sustainment
2. Understand, how wastes impact competitiveness, the bottom line, relationships with customers, and employee retention
3. Know the typical approach for integrating the Green process with existing processes and programs
4. Understand the typical process for developing solutions to minimize and move toward the elimination of the 7 key wastes to yield both immediate and long-term savings
5. Be familiar with the simple Green Stream Mapping tool used to identify the green wastes and the opportunities
6. Have the ability to discuss a ‘go forward’ justification that produces typical short-term and long-term savings, contribution to positive cash flow, and other benefits to be typically expected and achieved.

This training workshop has been delivered at the following facilities:

• KIK Custom Products
• Pratt and Whitney
• Janes Family Foods

If you would like to volunteer your facility as the workshop location, please email Jennifer Taves at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .