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Lean Means Sustainability — Step 5 — Control

Con­trol — step 5 of the Six Sigma DMAIC process — ensures that improve­ments are sustained.

The 2000 Watt Society

Cur­rently each Ger­man uses 6000 Watts of energy around the clock. Researcher pro­vide tar­gets to reduce energy con­sump­tion to 2000 Watts around the clock. But this objec­tive can­not be accom­plished eas­ily and is not nec­es­sary, if and when we switch away from fos­sil fuels to renew­able energy sources.

Electric Car’s Achilles’ Heel

Bat­ter­ies for elec­tric cars do have a poor energy den­sity com­pared to gaso­line used for con­ven­tional cars. How­ever, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and avail­abil­ity of dis­trib­uted charg­ing sta­tions might be enough to make this dis­ad­van­tage man­age­able for elec­tric cars.

When We Measure The Wrong Things

GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.

Green Homes Sell!

Many builders attend­ing the National Green Build­ing Con­fer­ence stated that they have been able to sell sus­tain­ably built homes con­sid­er­ably faster than the tra­di­tion­ally built new homes that have been lan­guish­ing in today’s tough mar­ket. Espe­cially energy effi­ciency remains the fea­ture most impor­tant to con­sumers inter­ested in green build­ings. Good news is also that the price […]