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Implementing Sustainable Operations
Aligning operations to the 3Ps - People, Planet and Profit
Our Sustainability Improvement consultants can assist you and collaborate with you in defining and implementing a Sustainable Operations strategy.
Our Sustainable Operations approach integrates the profit and efficiency focus of traditional operations with aspects from company’s internal and external stakeholders, its environmental impact and compliance with green regulations.
Our Sustainable Operations solutions address five main areas that revolve around the three Ps (People, Planet, Profit) of Sustainable operations:
- Green products/ services and related business processes
- Lean and Green Operations - Green Six Sigma
- Reducing waste and energy consumption in all business processes
- Green compliance
- Re-manufacturing and closed-loop supply chains
We can assist you in defining a Sustainable Operations strategy that considers four main areas:
- Improving internal operations with continuous process improvements related to sustainability, such as, people involvement, saving energy, waste reduction, and compliance with emission controls
- Improving extended supply chains by analyzing upstream supply chains to make trade-offs in the choice of materials and processes and implementing closed-loop supply chains or remanufacturing and eco-friendly disposal.
- Developing and enabling capabilities to recover polluting materials during manufacturing, to develop substitutes for non-renewable materials, and to re-design products to reduce their material content, packaging, and their energy consumption during manufacturing
- Developing and enabling core sustainability capabilities in products, processes, and supply chains that can result in long-term sustainability
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The Gateway Arch is known as the "Gateway to the West". It is the tallest habitable structure in St. Louis as well as the world's tallest monument. Construction began February 12, 1963 and the last section of the Arch was completed on October 28, 1965. The Arch is a structure known as a catenary curve, the shape a free-hanging chain takes when held at both ends, and considered the most structurally-sound arch shape. Nine hundred tons of stainless steel was used to build the Arch, more than any other project in history. In order to ensure that the constructed legs would meet, the margin of error for failure was 1/64th of an inch. All survey work was done at night to eliminate distortion caused by the sun's rays. Since the Arch was constructed before the advent of computer technology, relatively crude instruments were used for these measurements. |
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