The Clean Manufacturing Game Part 2 of 10

Are You Playing the Clean Manufacturing Game?
A 10 part blog series discussing important aspects of clean manufacturing technology and implementation strategy.

Clean Manufacturing Technology (CleanTech) – Part 2 of 10

Clean manufacturing technology (CleanTech) includes equipment, processes, policies, practices and continuous improvement measures that concentrate on optimizing manufacturing resources to minimize or eliminate wastes of various forms. CleanTech helps companies achieve maximum productivity and profitability with minimal waste. CleanTech is a hybrid manufacturing strategy involving Lean Manufacturing techniques; a waste reduction focus that emphasizes manufacturing actions and operations to maximize efficiency, and Green Manufacturing techniques; a waste reduction focus that emphasizes manufacturing actions and operations to minimize environmental waste. Its principal benefit to companies is that CleanTech reduces operating cost in the form of time, transport, chemical management, material consumption, waste treatment, and end-of-pipe pollution control. CleanTech provides opportunities to reduce regulatory obligations, risks, and associated costs, and increases manufacturing process efficiency and productivity.

Thus CleanTech incorporates both Lean and Green elements as an integrated operational strategy to reduce or eliminate both operational and resource wastes as they relate to manufacturing and assembly processes, and is uniquely enabled with advanced CO2 CleanTech.

David Jackson is President/CEO of Cleanlogix LLC and serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Cool Clean Technologies, Inc, based in Eagan, MN. He may be reached via e-mail at david.jackson@coolclean.com.

Part 3 of this series introduces CO2 CleanTech.