Research on Driving Factors of Collaborative Integration Implementation of Lean-Green Manufacturing System with Industry 4.0 Based on Fuzzy AHP-DEMATEL-ISM: From the Perspective of Enterprise Stakeholders

Abstract

The existing research and practices have shown that the coordinated implementation of lean-green manufacturing can have a positive impact on the economic and environmental benefits, which is an effective means to ensure the environmental protection of the production process of manufacturing without damaging their profitability. Within the field of lean-green research, there is still a lack of research to analyze the driving factors for the collaborative implementation of integrated lean and green integration. Although, some scholars and researchers have studied lean and green integration paradigms, their research has mostly focused on lean-green integration practices and their impact on environmental performance and their respective operations. In the context of Industry 4.0, this article investigates the driving forces behind the collaborative integration implementation of a lean-green manufacturing system from the viewpoint of stakeholders. Specifically addressing the issues of correlation and ambiguity in the identification of driving factors, this manuscript proposes an Interpretation Structure Model (ISM) of fuzzy comprehensive Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), based on Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), to determine the importance of the driving factors. Combined with the complex network theory, the evaluation index system is divided into four levels from eight factor categories, including endogenous lean-green driving factors and exogenous driving factors. The fuzzy AHP-DEMATEL-ISM is used to analyze the relationship between indicators and the structure of the indicator system. The complex network which is composed of the indicator system is divided into different levels. The importance of indicators is analyzed from the perspective of the global network, and key factors affecting the driving of lean-green system is analyzed. The integration of the lean-green manufacturing system and organizational synergy are promoted to jointly lead the enterprise toward sustainable development by paying particular attention to the primary impact indicators and aggressively cultivating the key impact indicators.

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