Sustainable Development and Quality of Life

This book aims at sensitizing readers towards sustainability and encourages them to understand the importance of lean, green and clean (LGC) issues pertaining to everyday life. The necessity of measurement-based evaluations, statistical significance of material use, and energy are discussed. The book focuses on the importance of climate change issues and environmental concerns associated with lean production and manufacturing. Emphasis is laid on understanding and applying the concepts of quality through project management and measurement based assessment methods. A wide range of audience, including students, teachers, quality professionals, management consultants, lean and Six Sigma practitioners, will find this book valuable.

Discusses the importance of lean, green, and clean issues pertaining to everyday life Focuses on the necessity of measurement-based evaluations, statistical significance of material use, and energy Includes exercises at the end of every chapter in order to enhance understanding of the discussed concepts

Autorentext
K. MURALIDHARAN is Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Science, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship from the Institute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, in 2003, and Ph.D. in Statistics from Sardar Patel University, India, in 1997. He is an internationally certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. His research interests are statistical inference, stochastic point process models, reliability and life testing, artificial intelligence, quality and Six Sigma. He has authored 3 books, out of which Six Sigma for Organizational Excellence: A Statistical Approach was published in 2015 by Springer Nature, and over a 135 publications in international and national journals of repute. He has completed 5 major research projects funded by the UGC and DST, New Delhi, India; guided many student projects on statistical methods and Six Sigma and offered consultancy services for many industries. He has about 30 years of teaching and research experience and has guided 7 research students for the doctoral degree.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Lean, Green, and Clean Quality Concepts.- 3. Lean, Green, Clean Sciences and Technologies.- 4. Lean, Green, and Clean Quality Improvement Models.- 5. Lean, Green and Clean Quality Assessment Models.- 6. Green Statistics: Essence of Lean, Green and Clean Sciences.- 7. Achieving and Promoting Lean, Green and Clean Quality Objectives.- 8. Control, Monitoring, and Deployment of Lean, Green and Clean Activities.- 9. Lean, Green and Clean: Some Case Studies.- 10. Moving Towards Sustainable Quality Life.