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Integrating pollution prevention into the manufacturing process
Author(s) -
Vajda Gary F.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.3310010110
Subject(s) - pollution prevention , risk analysis (engineering) , process (computing) , quality (philosophy) , simple (philosophy) , environmental pollution , manufacturing engineering , manufacturing , pollution , engineering , environmental economics , computer science , business , process management , environmental planning , environmental science , waste management , environmental protection , marketing , economics , philosophy , ecology , epistemology , biology , operating system
An Integrated Manufacturing and Environmental (IME) approach to pollution prevention offers the opportunity to achieve regulatory compliance and substantial operational efficiencies. It is accomplished by realizing the simple fact that waste represents a quality defect and adapting traditional manufacturing industry analytical methods to also consider environmental factors. The author outlines techniques and procedures entailed by this approach that are applicable to both large and small facilities as part of an overall Total Quality Management program. Several case examples are provided.