“…Investigations on LM have found benefits across a wide range of areas, including cost savings, better quality, shorter delivery times and increased employee performance (Piercy and Rich, Explore the barriers to lean manufacturing 2009; Laureani and Antony, 2010;Carlborg et al, 2013;Hadid and Mansouri, 2014;Ojasalo and Ojasalo, 2018;Cavdur et al, 2019). In addition, lean concepts have made textile and clothing businesses more sustainable and competitive (George et al, 2022). As a result, the anticipation of gaining these advantages, along with the need for firms to be more competitive, has encouraged industrial organizations all over the world to widely implement LM (Buer et al, 2021).…”