Assessment Resources
Here are some resources and links to some other
assessment tools that you may find of use to do your own assessing.
Some resources listed are in the Portable Document
Format (pdf format). In order to view these files, you will need
the Acrobat® Reader which is available for free from the Adobe
web site: http://www.adobe.com/.
Assessment Resources
The Center for Advanced Energy Systems (CAES) at Rutgers University provides access to documents and
related assessment information, including some case studies and
a number of useful publications. Three documents that were developed
using the IAC Database and program experience, may be of particular
interest. They are:
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A Self-Assessment
Workbook for Small Manufacturers, which gives plants a methodology
to perform a self assessment to identify and calculate energy
savings, waste reduction opportunities and production enhancements.
In addition to presenting a general procedure for performing
assessments of manufacturing plants, the reader is supplied
with the information needed to implement several specific cost
savings projects which are common to most plants.
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Modern
Industrial Assessments: A Training Manual, is aimed
at providing technical training to those interested in performing
industrial assessments at small and medium-sized manufacturing
plants.
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Industrial
Productivity Training Manual, provides some background
material from the GM PICOS System, but the manual concentrates
on a number of worked examples of various kinds of productivity
recommendations. The PICOS program is a long running industrial
assessment service provided by GM for their suppliers based
carefully on the Toyota Production System. The goal of the program
is to improve the productivity of suppliers and pass the savings
on to GM, which has a policy of continually paying less for
a product each year. They are proud that they never tolerate
price increases.
In addition, we wrote a training manual for our
students several years ago. In 1994, we commissioned two students,
Tina Bisson and Lori Brunswig, to write a Pollution
Prevention Training Manual. It provides a good overview of the
some of the Federal statutes related to waste, definitions of hazardous
waste, manifests, and terminology. It also provides an overview
of a pollution prevention assessment and includes sections on general
waste minimization practices, waste-specific minimization practices,
and industry-specific waste minimization practices.
We also have available a CSU
IAC Sample Assessment Report for you to download. This is intended
to demonstrate the types of reports that we generate. It's a collection
of different opportunities pasted into a previous report. Note that
the ideas presented are from actual reports, but that any reference
to a particular plant have been erased. Thus, the report has some
internal inconsistencies, but is otherwise illustrative of an assessment
report.
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