{"id":419,"date":"2010-09-13T05:41:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodinnovation.org\/?p=419"},"modified":"2010-09-13T05:41:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:41:48","slug":"virginia-tech-department-of-wood-science-and-forest-products-delivered-a-workshop-on-energy-savings-using-lean-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Department of Wood Science and Forest Products delivered a workshop on Energy Savings using Lean Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Henry Quesada, Assistant Professor<\/address>\n
Virginia Tech<\/address>\n

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Representatives\u00a0from\u00a0private, goverment, non goverment, and academic\u00a0sectors attended the workshop Energy Savings\u00a0using Lean\u00a0Thinking held at the Riverstone Energy Center in South Boston, VA.\u00a0\u00a0This workshop delivered academic and practical applications on how industries in the wood products sector could decrease energy consumption by integrating lean thinking principles with energy management methods. Standard energy audits are oriented to the identification of energy management opportunities (EMOs)\u00a0by looking at the power systems, building infraestructure, and\u00a0control systems but most of the times they do not\u00a0consider the impact of management practices in energy consumption. This workshop gave participants academic and practical guidelines in how to integrate lean thinking with energy reduction efforts. Figure 1 shows the model being developed at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Model to integrate Lean Thinking with Energy Management Opportunities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the firs presentation, Mr. Mark Webber from Dominion reviewed the current status and future of energy in Virginia. The second presentation was given by Dr. Earl Kline from Virginia Tech on Lean Thinking Principles. After this, attendess were\u00a0introduced to\u00a0a Lean Energy Audit Toolkit (integraton of\u00a0Lean Thinking\u00a0concepts and EMOs)\u00a0at macro level to identify what areas in their processes require inmediate attention, followed by examples\u00a0of wood products industries that have achieved significant energy savings by\u00a0eliminating waste in their processes. This presentation was given by Dr.\u00a0Henry Quesada also from Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2. Dr. Earl Kline from Virginia Tech discusses Lean Thinking Principles during the workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last two presentations were practical approaches. Mr. Tyler Gill from Enernoc presented on Enernoc’s energy management platforms. Mr. Gill used a real-time example to demostrate how important is to constantly monitored energy consumption in order to identify potential EMOs. Finally, Mr. Shannon Walls from Masco Cabinetry Group presented\u00a0results of\u00a0how his\u00a0Continous Improvement (CI) Group has identified, quantified, and implemented EMOs using CI methods. Overall, 64% out of the 23 attendees\u00a0rated the workshop as excellent and 36% as good.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to contact Dr. Henry Quesada at quesada@vt.edu<\/a> if you have any questions about EMOs and integration with Lean Thinking concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Henry Quesada, Assistant Professor Virginia Tech \u00a0 Representatives\u00a0from\u00a0private, goverment, non goverment, and academic\u00a0sectors attended the workshop Energy Savings\u00a0using Lean\u00a0Thinking held at the Riverstone Energy Center in South Boston, VA.\u00a0\u00a0This workshop delivered academic and practical applications on how industries in the wood products sector could decrease energy consumption by integrating lean thinking principles with energy … Continue reading “Virginia Tech Department of Wood Science and Forest Products delivered a workshop on Energy Savings using Lean Thinking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}