NSF Sustainability: Major provider of LEED reviews for US Green Building Council. Developer of sustainability standards for furniture, green chemistry, building products and materials. Provider of third-party sustainable product & systems certifications for carpets, furniture, personal care, WaterSense, forestry, EMS, greenhouse gas emissions, fisheries, organic food… Prover of environmental claims verification: eco-efficiency, DfE, recycled content, energy usage, recyclability, compostability, CleanGredients®… Manufacturing services include environmental impact assessment, supply chain assessment, sustainability measurement…

1. Malcolm Fox
Sustainability Director, NSF International
Green Manufacturing: The Art of
Sustainability

2. NSF International Live Safer™
 Leading public health and safety company
 NSF‐ISR: world‐class quality, environmental, aerospace, food, and
information security systems registrar
 NSF Sustainability:
 Major provider of LEED reviews for US Green Building Council
 Sustainability Standards: furniture, green chemistry, building products and
materials
 3rd Party sustainable product & systems certifications: carpets, furniture,
personal care, WaterSense℠, forestry, EMS, greenhouse gas emissions,
fisheries, organic food…
 Environmental claims verification: eco‐efficiency, DfE, recycled content,
energy usage, recyclability, compostability, CleanGredients®…
 Manufacturing services: environmental impact assessment, supply chain
assessment, sustainability measurement…
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3. Art, Manufacturing & Sustainability…
1. Sustainability and manufacturing
in context
2. The future of sustainable
manufacturing…the art
3. Sustainable manufacturing in
practice…the science
Bob Johnson Wheel Cube
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4. Context…Production Trends
Adapted: Dr. David Dornfeld
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5. Sustainability…
 United Nations: “Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs”
 Complex balance of social, economic, and environmental
needs
 New economic models of extraction, production,
consumption
 New models of governance
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6. Sustainability Challenges…Climate Change
China 5.7
India 1.9
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, United Nations IPCC
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7. Sustainability Challenges…Water
279 transboundary river basins; 45% world’s surface; 40% population
UNEP Year Book 2010
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8. Externalities…
Worldwide
environmental
damage costs due to
business…off balance
sheet externalities
United Nations Principles for
Responsible Investing. Trucost,
plc.
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9. Externalities internalized…climate change value‐at‐risk
Automotive industry Beer industry
Up to 65% loss;
Company that fails to adapt Company adapts
Up to 80% gain
Climate Change – A Business Revolution, The Carbon Trust

10. Value‐at‐Risk…Food & Beverage
 20 US Large‐cap
food & beverage.
 $1.1 bn loss
EBITDA, regulatory
cost of carbon
alone.
Analysis emissions data 20 food & beverage companies in the S&P500. NSF/Trucost
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11. Sustainable Manufacturing…
Burden of environmental impacts was a social cost…becoming more and more
the manufacturers burden…cost…and opportunity?
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12. Art, Manufacturing & Sustainability…
 The art of sustainable
manufacturing…holistic
views
Matthew Moore Rotations: Moore Estates
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13. Impact Reduction View…Ricoh Comet
Energy + Materials
Traditional
environmental
concepts
Ricoh Comet Circle Concept
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14. Life Cycle View…Extraction/Production/Consumption
PRODUCTION
EXTRACTION
CONSUMPTION
SINKS
Importance of Design, Supply Chain, End‐of‐Life
Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems, Lebel & Lorek, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2008.
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15. Art, Manufacturing & Sustainability…
 The science…
Beuysian School of Art & Sustainability
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16. Sustainability Noise
Swiffer Designer Speaks Up Over Ford Saves $1.2M by Shutting Down PCs
Greenwashing Criticism
Carpet giant Mohawk aims to weave We are nearing the tipping point…
sustainability into every fiber of its
operations the triple bottom line
Whole Foods, Starbucks Top Sustainable Retail HP Reduces GHG Emissions 10%,
Design Awards Sets New Targets
…closing the loop, and bringing things full
circle…
BASF First Chemical Company as Founding
ConAgra Foods to Reduce Member of The Sustainability Consortium
Packaging, Water, Greenhouse
Gas and Solid Waste by 2015
Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis Join Pilot Food
Recycling Program
Wal-Mart, Others Push
‘Sustainable’ Toys Toward $1B
Market
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17. Value Creation
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18. Value Creation & Sustainability
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19. Lean Manufacturing & Sustainability
 Sustainable manufacturing fits well within a lean
manufacturing culture:
 Common culture: continual improvement, employee
involvement, operation‐focus, metrics‐driven, supply chain
investment, holistic thinking
 Strong relationship between manufacturing waste and
environmental impacts: defects, waiting, unnecessary
processing, over‐production, movement, inventory,
complexity
 Powerful methods: Kaizen, Six Sigma, TPM, JIT, etc.
 Integration with E/Q Management Systems
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20. Sustainability Metrics…What’s Important
3100 “corporate responsibility” reports. Top Three:
•Vodaphone (377 pages!)
•Coca Cola (50 pages)
•Dell (110 pages)
Corporate Register, Reporting Awards
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21. Sustainability Metrics…You Are Being Watched…
 Newsweek Green
Rankings
 EarthSense
 Dow Jones
 New Scientist
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22. Sustainability Metrics…Parameters
 Vodaphone
Corporate
Responsibility Report
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23. Sustainability Metrics…Parameters
 Vodaphone
Corporate
Responsibility Report
 Siemens Greening
Corporate America
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24. Sustainability Metrics…Parameters
 Parameters over
which you have
control, influence
 Quantify
environmental
impacts
 Establish tolerances
 Eliminate gaps
 Demonstrate ROI
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25. Barriers
 Lean methods do not usually target sustainability metrics
 Environmental personnel are often not well integrated into
lean production efforts
 The wealth of sustainability information is often not in the
hands of lean production practitioners…Stakeholders!!!
 Majority of benefits arise from design stage
 Regulatory friction; regulatory uncertainty
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26. Summary…
 The game: reduce risks & embrace
opportunities from economic,
social, and environment
developments.
 Translate opportunities & risks to
the manufacturing environment:
value and externalities
 Metrics, integration, performance
Brandon Ballengee The Spiny Diatom Chaetoceros
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27. Resources…
 No shortage of resources:
EPA’s Lean to Green,
Commerce Dept. Sustainable
Business Clearinghouse, NIST,
SME, etc
 Malcolm Fox, Sustainability
Director, NSF International
mfox@nsf.org
Brandon Ballangee Cleared & Stained Hymenochirus
Family Frog
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