Sustainable-value stream mapping to evaluate sustainability performance: case study in an Indonesian furniture company

Abstract

Abstract. Lean manufacturing tools do not consider environmental and societal benefits. The conventional value stream mapping (VSM) methodology examines the economics of a manufacturing line, most of which are in regards to time (cycle time, lead time, change-out time, etc.). Incorporating the capability to capture environmental and societal performance visually through VSMs will increase its usefulness as a tool that can be used to assess manufacturing operations from a sustainability perspective. A number of studies have addressed the extension of VSM to incorporate additional criteria. A vast majority of these efforts have focused on adding energy-related metrics to VSMs, while several other studies refer to 'sustainable' VSM by including environmental performance in conventional VSMs. This research has developed a method for VSM integrated with environment metric and social metric for ensuring sustainable manufacture. The proposed technique is capable of visualizing and evaluating manufacturing process performance from sustainability view point. The capability of proposed technique has been tested by an application study on furniture company. The study provides insights to practitioners to visualize process performance in economic, environment and social metric.

DMAIC-based approach to sustainable value stream mapping: towards a sustainable manufacturing system

“…It was found to be impactful for waste elimination activities which facilitate in the visualization and analysis of information as well as the demonstration of value and non-value-added tasks in the mapping. Hartini et al (2018) pointed out that improvised LM tools like VSM can possibly possess a better visualization functionality of the triple bottom lines for sustainability performance assessment.…”

“…From here, it is apparent that the VSM used in analyzing green and sustainable manufacturing has not been defined properly (Duflou et al, 2012). In general, the lack of research on this sustainable-oriented lean tool is still considered limited (Powell, Lundeby, Chabada, & Dreyer, 2017;Hartini, Ciptomulyono, Anityasari, Sriyanto, & & Pudjotomo, 2018).…”

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Social Value Stream Mapping (Socio-VSM): Methodology to Societal Sustainability Visualization and Assessment in the Manufacturing System

“…In this regard, out of the wide range of lean tools available, value stream mapping (VSM) is deemed as one of the most significant ones [1], [5]. Hartini et al [28] indicated that VSM has the ability to visualize the triple bottom lines better in sustainability performance assessment. The tremendous support for VSM is an expected outcome due to its growing reputation, effectiveness and ease-of-use in improving sustainable performance.…”

The application of Green Lean Six Sigma

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