Lean and Green: The Move to Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing
基于全国调查，研究企业如何通过改进制造流程和提高生产率来创造环境改善机会，并分析先进制造创新、研发强度及供应链关系对采纳环保制造策略的影响。
This article presents the results of a national survey of environmental manufacturing practices. Efforts by firms to improve manufacturing processes and increase productivity create substantial opportunities for environmental improvement. The adoption of advanced manufacturing process innovations provides incentives for the adoption of environmentally conscious manufacturing strategies. Close relationships across the production chain, between end-users and suppliers in particular, facilitate the adoption of this related bundle of environmental and industrial innovations. Firms and plants that are R&D-intensive and manufacturing innovators possess the capacity to both improve productivity and reduce environmental costs and risks.