What is the Lean and Chemicals Toolkit?

The NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide toolkits designed to help manufacturing companies reduce energy waste, align production with environmental performance metrics and reduce environmental risk with manufacturing chemicals.  

The Lean and Chemicals Toolkit

This toolkit offers Lean implementers practical strategies and techniques for improving common Lean results related to time, cost, and quality while also reducing risk and enhancing environmental performance related to all aspects of chemical manufacturing, management and use.

This toolkit is intended to introduce Lean practitioners from chemical manufacturing companies, companies that use chemicals in their products and/or production processes, and small businesses that use chemicals on an incidental basis to strategies for identifying and eliminating chemical “waste” and risk as part of Lean. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professionals at these companies will also find useful information in this toolkit. Finally, the toolkit introduces Lean practitioners to the wide array of chemical waste management information and resources available from EPA and other organizations.

This toolkit assumes that you are familiar with Lean methods.  For a copy of the Lean and Chemicals Toolkit, please email merrily@camt.com with your name, company, and mailing address. 

For more information, please contact CAMT at 303.592.4087 or here.