“…Apparently, various terms used to refer lean application in manufacturing environment in the literatures remained a problem for researchers and practitioners to properly understand lean and by extension to successfully implement it (Abdul Wahab, Mukhtar, & Sulaiman, 2017;Gurumurthy & Kodali, 2009;Islam, Sorooshian, Rahamaddulla, & Mustafa, 2018;Mirdad & Eseonu, 2015). In fact, many literatures simply used these terms (especially LP or LM) interchangeably without in-depth explanation on why these terms were regarded the same (Anvari, Ismail, & Hojjati, 2011;Bandehnezhad, Zailani, & Fernando, 2012;Che Mamat, Md Deros, Ab Rahman, Omar, & Abdullah, 2015;Muslimen, Mohd Yusof, & Zainal Abidin, 2011;Puvanasvaran et al, 2008;Shah & Ward, 2003).…”