{"id":563,"date":"2012-06-10T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodinnovation.org\/?p=563"},"modified":"2012-06-10T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:56:40","slug":"workshop-energy-reductions-using-lean-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"WORKSHOP: Energy Reductions using Lean Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sponsored by<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/VCE-werc-cfpb-LOGO1-300x62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"VCE logo\" src=\"http:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/VCE-werc-cfpb-LOGO1-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Organized By<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Sustainable Biomaterials at Virginia Tech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Goal<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0The purpose of this workshop is to inspire new visions and strategies which address the most pressing energy challenges for contemporary society; it will create new ideas for usage of Lean Principles in reducing energy use and costs. It will also promote collaboration between scholars working across disciplines on Lean Thinking and Energy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lean-house.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"lean house\" src=\"http:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lean-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lean House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key Values of Workshop<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Attendees will have a better opportunity to\u00a0understand lean and potential energy savings with the implementation\u00a0 of lean principles\u00a0into their process.<\/li>\n<li>Presentation of an Energy toolkit to identify wastes related to energy, environment,\u00a0and the processes.<\/li>\n<li>Attendees will be exposed on \u201cHow to use Lean principles\u00a0for Energy Savings\u201d\u00a0 using real\u00a0applications<\/li>\n<li>Participants will be introduced to Energy Management Systems and their benefits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tentative Agenda<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>September 27, 2012. 9<\/em>:00 am-4:30 pm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome and overview<\/li>\n<li>Current and future scenaro of Energy in Virginia. J<em>oseph Jones, Director of Executive Affairs. Appalachian Power<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Lean Thinking Principles. <em>Henry Quesada, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tec<\/em>h<\/li>\n<li><em>Break<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Energy Audits using Lean Thinking.\u00a0<em>Henry Quesada, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tec<\/em>h<\/li>\n<li>Energy Management Systems. <em>Tyler Gill, Enernoc Systems<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Lunch<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Industry case study I. <em>Brian Bond, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Industry case study II. <em>Jon Bluey, Building Science Project Manager, Community Housing Partners.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Closing comments and questions<\/li>\n<li>Adjourn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Relevant to<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plant Managers, Quality Engineers, Process Engineers, Procurement Managers, Supplier Chain Managers, Purchasing Managers, Plant Engineers, Energy Managers, Energy and Environment Engineers and Medium Enterprise Manager<\/li>\n<li>Anybody who is interested in energy\u00a0savings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Venue<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtrc.vt.edu\/\">Roanoke Higher Education Center<\/a><\/p>\n<address>108 North Jefferson Street<\/address>\n<address>Roanoke, Virginia 24016<\/address>\n<address>(540) 767-6100<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Registration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$50. Includes coffee breaks, lunch, and materials. To register, please follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpe.vt.edu\/reg\/leanthink\/\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0Please\u00a0contact\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Henry Quesada at <a href=\"mailto:quesada@vt.edu\">quesada@vt.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0if you have any questions or need more details.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CEU will be offered for this workshop.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact\u00a0Dr\u00a0Henry Quesada at (540 231 0978) during business hours of 8 a.m. and\u00a05 p.m. to discuss accommodations 5 days prior to the event. TDD number is (800) 828-1120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsored by Organized By\u00a0 Department of Sustainable Biomaterials at Virginia Tech Goal \u00a0The purpose of this workshop is to inspire new visions and strategies which address the most pressing energy challenges for contemporary society; it will create new ideas for usage of Lean Principles in reducing energy use and costs. It will also promote collaboration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/?p=563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WORKSHOP: Energy Reductions using Lean Thinking&#8221;<\/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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process-improvement","category-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sim.sbio.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}