%0 Generic
%A Santos, Javier
%A Muñoz Villamizar, Andrés Felipe
%A Ormazábal, Marta
%A Viles, Elisabeth
%8 2018-11
%@ 0951-192X
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10818/37538
%X Nowadays companies are trying to become ‘greener’, which requires integrating the environmental
dimension into their traditional performance metrics. However, managers may not have the complete
information and data for their environmental problems and, crucially, there is a lack of knowledge
about how these environmental issues affect a company’s productivity. Even though the availability of
technology has increased and it is easier than ever to obtain all kinds of data, there is a lack of
agreement on how to correctly measure environmental performance, and companies could suffer from
an overload of environmental information. The biggest challenge, therefore, lies in how to measure and
obtain the appropriate environmental data and how to interpret and relate these data to the company’s
productivity. In this context, this paper presents a new and innovative approach, called Plug&Glean, for
diagnosing and improving productivity and environmental performance in a defined production
system. The approach is applied to a case study in the north of Spain. The findings suggest that it is
possible to improve productivity and environmental performance at the same time, as well as reinforce
the notion that waste elimination has a positive impact on improving environmental performance.
%I Universidad de La Sabana
%T Using problem-oriented monitoring to simultaneously improve productivity and environmental performance in manufacturing companies
%R 10.1080/0951192X.2018.1552796
%~ Intellectum