miles ferranti

Thank you, this is very helpful.

No conformance is not really a problem as we have only had one minor non conformance in 6 years on our Environmental standard. The one thing the auditor picked up was that we could not measure the reduction in our energy savings. I am a little confused with the initiation of new six sigma projects, I thought projects could only be carried out if you had a problem?

Yes we have the ISO14001 standard here for which I am responsible for. The problem is I having been running this for over 5 years now and most new ideas have been dealt with either through objectives and targets which is part of the continous improvement which the standard asks. Or though audits that have been carried out through people such as the carbon trust. These reports take 2 days and the report is 52 pages of improvements and recomendations that have been carried out. So we have run out of ideas! The only ideas that we havent had the time or man power to carry out in depth would be, costings of the system, monitoring and reducing energy usage, spend/payback of environmental projects.

We are starting some new training regarding environmental six sigma, we need to do 7 projects, has anybody got any good project ideas or experience of this?