5th Massachusetts Green Career Conference Presentation: Workforce Training Funds for Business

1. Massachusetts Green Career
Conference
Holiday Inn, Marlborough
October 3, 3013

2. Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension
Partnership
MassMEP is a Training and Organizational
Development Company that specializes in
helping small to medium sized manufacturers
create sustainable Growth

3. Next Generation Manufacturing

4. Continual Improvement

5. Sustainability

6. Sustainability
• E3 Program – Economy, Energy, Environment
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Invest in local communities
Address energy and sustainability challenges
Provide valuable technical training and assessments
Enable economic growth
• Green Supplier Network
• Works with large manufacturers to engage small and
medium-sized suppliers in low-cost technical reviews that
focus on process improvement and waste minimization

7. EPA funded Pilot – Region 1
• Objective: Document the usefulness of the
EPA Lean & Energy Toolkit
• Apply lean techniques and practices to
determine effects on energy consumption
• Focus on both energy & environmental related
metrics and impacts
• Target 6 manufacturers in different industries / 3
states (MA, ME, NH)
• EPA - $67,635 / SME Match - $73,303

8. EPA funded Pilot – Region 1
• Results –
• Energy savings - $752,000 / year
• Environmental impact savings - $34,000 / year
• Traditional Lean savings - $1,250,000 / year
• Share Case Study • Outcome - Seek energy/environmental
related metrics with every lean project