Realizing the significant potential for achieving environmental results through enhanced resource efficiencies, EPA authorized a study of Corporate Environmental Management and Compliance. This study was designed to analyze company’s business strategies and environmental management approaches, and assess the presence of needs and strategy patterns similar to those witnessed in previous reinvention efforts. Early in this project “Lean Manufacturing” was identified as a primary manufacturing strategy often utilized by today’s competitive industries. Because of Lean Manufacturing’s increasing prevalence in factories, and its potential for producing environmental enhancement through resource productivity, the study focused exclusively on this strategy. The.
