Application of Green and Lean Production at Ricoh

Abstract

In this paper we explain how Ricoh have developed and applied a Green and Lean framework at their manufacturing site in Telford (UK). The paper shows how the site has adopted and adapted the Ricoh corporate philosophies [1] of Kaizen and Sustainability, learning from doing and then learning how to share these aspects with stakeholders. These activities demonstrate multiple business benefits of addressing process inefficiencies and waste resource usage, which in turn improve business performance and ultimately survivability (business continuity).