Combining lean and green in manufacturing: a model of waste management

Fercoq, Alain; Lamouri, Samir; Carbone, Valentina; Lelièvre, Adrien; Lemieux, Andrée-Anne

doi:10.3182/20130619-3-ru-3018.00164

Cited by 22 publications

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“…In fact, according to [29], both practices are aimed at minimising (ideally eliminating) waste, no matter what type of waste they are focused on. Researchers in [29] and [64] agree with the observations reported in [84] and [25]. Nevertheless, they further suggest that the different methods for reducing such wastes and, even more important, the different definitions of what wastes are, are indeed the main conflicting points between lean and green practices.…”

Section: Lean Vs Green Manufacturing: Similarities and Differencessupporting

confidence: 62%

“…Researchers in [29] also highlight that the main difference between lean and green practices is the waste definition, arguing that while lean practices are focused on workforce and space reduction as well as increasing flexibility and capacity utilisation, green practices are aimed at reducing, reusing, recycling, reworking, returning, and remanufacturing. On the other hand, in [84] it is argued that, although lean and green wastes definition can differ, lean non-value added activities can be considered as energy and natural resources wastage, associating, in this way, the seven lean wastes with the ones defined within the green manufacturing context.…”

Section: Lean Vs Green Manufacturing: Similarities and Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[72], [26], [29], [64], [84] Understanding of lean contributions towards implementation of green initiatives helps to take advantage of lean culture as a catalyst for green practices.…”

Section: Success Factor Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Sustainability: In this category, it is intended to include articles that evaluate the actual impacts of the combined approach to the sustainability performance and to what extent (and how) further improvements can be achieved when the combination approach is implemented. [64] x x x [65] x x X [66] x x X [67] x x x x [68] x x x [69] x x x X [70] x x x [9] x x x x [71] x x x x [72] x x x x x [73] x x x [28] x x x x [27] x x x x [74] x x x [75] x x [76] x x x [77] x [26] x x x x x [78] x x x [79] x x [80] x x x x [26] x x x x [8] x x x [7] x x x [81] x x x [82] x x x [83] x x x x [84] x x x [85] x x [86] x x x [25] x x x x [87] x x [63] x x x x x [88] x x [89] x x x [29] x x [90] x x [91] x x [92] x x [93] x x x x [94] x x x x [95] x x x x [96] x x x [97] x x [98] x x…”

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Lean-Green Manufacturing Practices and Their Link to Sustainability

Abualfaraa¹,

Salonitis²,

Al-Ashaab³

et al. 2019

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The current rapidly changing and highly competitive market has put companies under a great pressure not only to be successful, but also to sustain their success into the future. In addition, in recent years, companies have become more aware of the fact that it is no longer enough to take care of economic aspects, being crucial to also take care of environmental and social aspects in order to actually succeed and lead in the current and future markets. In this context, companies are urged to move towards more innovative manufacturing practices that maintain a healthy balance among economic, environmental and social performances, which are the three pillars of the sustainability performance. To give some insight into this issue, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted in this paper regarding the current trends in the field, doing special focus on the link between lean-green manufacturing and the different sustainability aspects. The SLR concluded that lean and green implementations as stand-alone systems are usually not enough to ensure the required balance between the three pillars of sustainability, suggesting further combining them into a single approach. Researchers expect to achieve further improvements in the sustainability performance moving towards the next level of sustainability.

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Section: Lean Vs Green Manufacturing: Similarities and Differencessupporting

confidence: 62%

Section: Lean Vs Green Manufacturing: Similarities and Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[72], [26], [29], [64], [84] Understanding of lean contributions towards implementation of green initiatives helps to take advantage of lean culture as a catalyst for green practices.…”

Section: Success Factor Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

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Lean-Green Manufacturing Practices and Their Link to Sustainability

Abualfaraa¹,

Salonitis²,

Al-Ashaab³

et al. 2019

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“…In this line, there are the ones that propose to combine them into a new, single and stand-alone lean-green approach [47], while there are others that, based on the fact that lean practices are not only well-documented but also widely (and successfully) adopted all over the world, as well as that the lean culture do favour the implementation of green initiatives, propose to use an already stablished lean environment as a catalyst to the adoption and further incorporation of green practices [43,44,53]. Within the first group, waste management methods, like Waste Reducing Techniques (WRT), are the most used strategies to perform the combination [37,38,41,60]. In [53], a combined approach based on the Theory of Inventive Problems-Solving tools, is presented.…”

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Lean-Green Manufacturing Practices and Their Link with Sustainability: A Critical Review

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The current rapidly changing and highly competitive market has put companies under a great pressure towards adopting sustainable practices, in terms of keeping a healthy balance among economic, environmental and social performances. In this context, the lean-green manufacturing approach, which combines lean practices focused on customers’ demand, and green practices focused on reducing the business’ environmental impact, has gained popularity. Nevertheless, the lean-green manufacturing is still a relatively new practice, lacking a clear and structured research definition, and of significant evidence of successful cases in the practice. In this paper, a literature review is conducted to identify the actual possibility of combining lean and green practices, the current trends for implementing such combination and the potential sustainability improvements such implementation can lead. It is the authors’ intention that the findings analysed in this paper can contribute to the state-of-the-art of lean-green manufacturing and provide practitioners with a useful tool towards developing effective strategies for its deployment.

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