Environment Conscious Manufacturing and ISO 14001(<Special Issue>The Environmental Management and Production Systems in the 21th Century)

Abstract

Recently, most of companies cope with saving the resource and energy for the sustainability. Customers also pay more attentions to the environment activities of the companies than those in the mass-production/ consumption period. Environment conscious manufacturing is one of the useful approaches to solving these problems in business. This paper deals with two types of environment conscious manufacturing systems. One is an operations management system which gives us the operational procedures to control the system. The other is an Environment Management System (EMS) that is a total management framework. We explain the management systems and discuss how to apply them to the real systems efficiently.