Green manufacturing might seem like a flavor of the month. Perhaps it seems to have cropped up as “An Inconvenient Truth” hit the scene. But as John Sutherland will tell you, that’s not the case. Sutherland, an ASQ and SME member and professor of environmental and ecological engineering at Purdue University, has been involved in the field for almost twenty-five years.
He has the unique experience of having an industrial engineering background and working in the quality field teaching Deming’s principles, and also promoting green manufacturing since the 1990s. Although these may seem like divergent paths, they are actually interconnected.