Green Sigma a methodology efficiently for reducing our own carbon footprint

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Green Sigma
Green Sigma or Green Six Sigma is the adaption of Lean Six Sigma to environmental and climate protection.

Lean Six Sigma has proven to be a highly efficient method for breakthrough improvements in various industries. In the light of the urgency and the poor Copenhagen results, common decision making strategies seem to be too slow to cope with global warming. Independently from any political consensus, companies, authorities and even private people can utilize GreenSigma to efficiently reduce their own carbon footprint. The joint impact can significantly reduce climate gas emissions.

This site is dedicated to further develop the Green Sigma approach, spread the knowledge, and generate ideas on Green Sigma use cases and share lessons learned.

Environmental pollution and climate change is caused by billions of people using even more machines and devices, growing food and consuming resources all over the world. Looking at this immense complexity it is obvious that there will be no simple solution. But to protect our environment we can use the same means which creates the problem: The immense power of billions of bright individuals and millions of companies and organizations contributing to their ability.

Green Sigma can be the method supporting all these activities. On all levels. From an individual up to a mulit-national corporation.

GreenSigma
Green Sigma is applying proven industry principles and tools on environmental protection and energy efficiency. This includes:

Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing
strives for continual improvement of lean processes by driving out waste

Six Sigma
A data driven method for radical improvements

Environmental Management
A method to systematically prevent environmental damage in the industry, standardized via ISO 14000

Green Sigma Principles
Combination of methods
The applied methods are designed for specific industry tasks. They are exceptionally strong in combination.

Continual improvment
Mankind is growing and so do our demands. So we need to become better and better no matter how good we are today.

Fact-based decision making
Our abilites to improve are limited. So we need to concentrate on the vital few things and leave the trivial many. Figures can help identify them.

Accountability and responisbility
Waste of energy and resources are far more common in areas where the ones who control the waste are not the ones who suffer from it. Bridging this gap is the key.

Everybody can contribute
Our environmental and climate issue is caused by all of us - and so can only be tackled by all of us. The sum of all tiny contributions can be immense. To wait until somebody else acts first is just an lame excuse.


Green Sigma Tools
The list of tools below should just give an idea on what tools can be applied in a green way

Tool Brief Description GreenSigma Example
Frequency Relevancy Analysis of Problems (FRAP) Prioritization technique: Matrix of problems showing their frequency (i.e. how often a problem occurs) on the vertical axis and the relevancy or severity of each of the problems on the horizontal axis. Problems with both a high frequency and relevancy need to be tackled first. Electrical energy waste in private households: What causes more waste: The pizza oven with 3kW running once a week for an hour or 10 standby devices with 5W each running all the time?
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) TPM is a maintenance program concept to prevent defects, waste and down times and extend the life of the equipment by raising awareness and empowering employees to initiate corrective action Keep the fridge defrosted and the recuperator clean in order to minimize the compressor's energy consumption and increase it's lifespan
Incentives Incentives can bridge the gap between having control over an issue and being accountable for it Landlords often rent out their properties "cold". So they have no interest in a better insulation. So they have control over the majority of the heating waste. If they would participate from the saved energy they would be willing to invest in a better insulation.




Further tools:

5 Why Analysis
5S
7 Wastes
Asset reduction
Audits
Benchmarking
Cause and Effect Diagram (Ishikawa Diagram)
Continuation
Control Plan
Correlation Analysis
Cost of Poor Qualilty (CoPQ) Calculation
Critical to Environment (CtE)
Design of Experiments (DoE)
Error Proofing, Poka Yoke
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Force Field Analysis
Gauge R&R
Hypothesis Testing
ICVS Cycle
Life Cycle Assessment
Matching
Paired comparison
Pareto Analyis
Process Modeling / Process Mapping
Product Line Analysis (PLA)
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Recycling-oriented Product Design
Relation Diagram
Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
Stakeholder Grid
Standardizing
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Supply and Demand Analysis
Technology Assessment
Theory of solving inventor's problems (TRIZ)
Tick Sheets
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Upside/Downside Matrix for Changes
Value Analysis
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Visual Management

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