Waste Not, Want Not
By applying Lean Six Sigma practices, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools' Graphic Production Center was able to reduce its paper waste by 90 percent, resulting in potential additional revenue of $64,000 annually.
"That doesn't sound like a lot of money, but $72,000 of waste is still value," Griffin contends, pointing out that it equates to the yearly salary of two in-plant employees.
Griffin, who gave a presentation about his in-plant's Lean Six Sigma success at last year's IPMA conference, notes that this waste reduction project will never go away. As new equipment comes in, the in-plant will continue to measure waste and try to continuously improve its numbers.
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