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Disclaimer: No part of this presentation constitutes engineering advice.
ISO 14001:2015 is a standard for environmental management systems that calls for identification of environmental aspects, or activities or outputs (such as waste) that can affect the environment. ISO 50001:2018 is a standard for energy management systems that includes a gap analysis whose purpose is to identify inefficient uses of energy.
Although environmental aspects require attention for compliance purposes, enormous wastes of material and energy can hide in plain view—often for years or even longer because they are built into the job where they are taken for granted. Henry Ford proved more than a hundred years ago, when he could have legally dumped almost all his wastes into the nearest river or landfill, that it is profitable as well as environmentally responsible to avoid making the wastes, or else repurposing them for resale. Few if any material or energy wastes can meanwhile hide from the chemical engineering technique known as the material and energy balance.
All manufacturing industries (service, such as health care, secondary)
While compliance with environmental regulations is mandatory, enormous wastes of materials and energy can nonetheless hide in plain sight. Removal of these wastes saves money and enables lower prices for better competitiveness, along with higher profits for investor and higher wages for employees. This presentation will describe the benefits of ISO 14001:2015 (environmental management systems) and ISO 50001:2018 (energy management systems), and the desirability of exceeding the requirements of ISO 14001 by looking at all material wastes rather than just environmental aspects.
William A. Levinson, P.E., is the principal of Levinson Productivity Systems, P.C. He is an ASQ Fellow, Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Quality Manager, Reliability Engineer and Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also the author of several books on quality, productivity and management, of which the most recent is The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Universal Code for World-Class Success.