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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:38

We deliver GREEN solutions that save your company money!

Jim Grubb gave a presentation at the Midwest Manufacturing Conference in Chicago on September 22, 2009.  Following is a very brief synopsis.  If you’d like to see more, please send him an email or call.  As he does with traditional Lean Implementation methodology, he can help your company by leading, training, and effecting green improvements that improve profits.  

Profitability and Environmental Responsibility – Lean Manufacturing Solutions in Two Shades of Green 

The time for Green has come.  Societal, regulatory, and market factors have converged to Green.  We all are very interested in the logical, profitable reductions in waste and pollution that is in U.S industry’s potential.  Can we learn a way to simultaneously bring our companies into compliance and maintain or improve profits?

Green Initiatives will work when we realize we can use them to increase profits. 

Topics are:

·         Environmentally Responsible ways to improve profits

·         Use what you learned from Lean to organize Green

·         The value in being ahead of the Green curve 

This presentation provides guidance for executive leadership, project management, and financial justification necessary to make a focus on environmental sustainability a source of profit in your business.  Ask us how we can train, plan, and implement cost-saving green improvemnets for you!

 

 People hire PGPi when they know their business should be making significantly more!

 

Cash flow and profit improvement are your lifeblood. PGPi has a proven track record of profit improvement and cash flow improvement in businesses of all sizes—and for companies in much tougher positions than yours.

PGPi clients consistently have gone from loss or breakeven to profit.

You want a surprise-free, reasonable cost, on-time, success.  So does PGPi.  Let us help your company achieve the robust profits you've only dreamed about because Profit Matters©.

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you have a documented system for attaining current results.

We will be sensitive to your cultural needs, second only to delivering results.  We follow your dress standards, do all work possible on your site, and respect your employees as colleagues.  Like one client's HR director said, "You didn't seem like a consultant; starting on day one you were our employee in both your actions and in our employees' reactions!"

Last Updated on Friday, 02 October 2009 13:35
 
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 22:51

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Cap and Trade

I was asked by one of the attendees at my presentation the following questions about Cap and Trade.  Thought I would share it with you, too. 
What are the important points of the Cap and Trade Bill in the Congress?One of the best sources of analysis of the bill passed by the House of Representatives is in the BusinessWeek blog posting by Dan Buecke of June 26, 2009 here .  The key objections are the cost, the punitive – not preventive – focus of the bill, and the fact that utilities were given for free 35% of the expected tradable cap and trade credits.  I have also read that many of the congress members’ favorite constituent corporations were given many more free credits – maybe half of all credits were given out free.  A punitive system preferentially applied does not have much to recommend it. 

Cap and Trade in this Economy

How will it affect the U.S. economy?As the aforementioned link opines, there is an expected chilling effect on the economy.  Most business organizations including the Chamber of Commerce are saying that if prices rise due to required emission reductions of 17% and a new legion of government workers is employed to enforce all the interpretations and measures of a 1000+ page bill, it will be a significant drag on economic and personal well-being. Personally, I am not opposed to a fairly applied, incentive-based plan.  I just a.) haven’t seen one come out of Washington and b.) believe the world is cleaner in 2009 than it was in 1960, whether it is water, air, or soil.  Here is a link that was published in the Wall Street Journal.  The author, Hayward, is a little more pessimistic than I am, but he is probably smarter, too.  My feeling is that politics has so strongly impacted the science that it is hard to know exactly how to feel.  I am very skeptical that the CO2 I breathe out is a pollutant, though.

  Profit Matters©

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PGPi Offers Path to Productivity
PGPi recommends an article by Lorinda Toledo of the New Mexico Business Weekly illustrating how some companies in New Mexico have improved productivity using the techniques of lean manufacturing.
On November 28, 2008, she reports on their implementation of the same techniques used by PGPi to help clients make strides in productivity and profitability.  Excerpt:
Lean techniques help companies eliminate ... the "eight deadly wastes" — overproduction, wait time, transportation, inefficient process, excess inventory, excess motion, defects and under-utilization of employees.  According to MEP, the manufacturers it has worked with created or retained more than 500 jobs, had operational savings of $18 million and surpassed $14 million in new investments.
Many companies… miss opportunities because they do not implement changes as they grow. Being receptive to new ways of doing things is an essential factor in facilitating that growth and the transitions it requires.
PGPi commends the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership on the fine work they do!   Profit Matters©

Last Updated on Friday, 02 October 2009 14:03