Beyond Waste: How Lean MFG Reduces Costs and Environmental Footprint

Lean manufacturing helps identify and eliminate waste—whether it’s time, materials, or effort—across every part of your operation. While its primary goal is to remove non-value-added steps, it also enhances environmental performance, making your processes more efficient, sustainable, and better positioned to maintain a competitive edge.

Join us for a lunch-n-learn to:

• Discover how Lean manufacturing not only drives operational efficiency but also delivers significant environmental benefits.
• Explore tools, frameworks, and best practices that support continuous improvement, including ISO 14001, life cycle assessment (LCA), and other sustainability-focused methodologies.
• Gain insights into the often-overlooked advantages of these best practices and learn how to amplify them for greater sustainability impact.

Event includes lunch, networking, presentation, and Q&A.

Gaby Saavedra, GaMEP Project Manager, Energy and Sustainability

Gaby provides guidance and expertise to manufacturers in the areas of sustainability and energy management. She specializes in air permitting and requirements, emissions reduction, and best practices in environmental compliance.

She holds an M.S. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Tech and a B.A. in Environmental Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bucaramanga, Colombia. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Engineering Management from Trine University.

*This lunch and learn educational series will deliver actionable tips and tools of the trade specifically designed to help Georgia Manufacturers grow their business.

Host or Publisher Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) at Georgia Tech