The Adoption of Lean and Cleaner Production – A Preliminary Study for Malaysia Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

Adoption of lean production in managing the production operations with a cleaner production due to of environmental concerns positively drive new manufacturing paradigm in the manufacturing environment. This leads to this study being carried out, in order to investigate the extent of which these practices has been adopted in Malaysia’s manufacturing industry. The finding revealed that good performance in environmental practice in tandem with the appraisal of labour safety in material handling has helped the respondents to successfully sustain the quality and durability of products, improves the operation efficiency, as well as production’s productivity. Aside from that, the correlation test results between all items in LP and CP have a significant positive relationship with each other where the appraisal in the selection of equipment from CP practices have a very strong relationship with the improvement of working conditions that resulted from the adoption of LP practices. These potentially make both practices as the best approach that has potential to be integrated together to support the development of a sustainable manufacturing practice principally in Malaysia’s manufacturing industry.

Lean Manufacturing Adoption in Malaysia: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Pioneer survey researches in Malaysia manufacturing settings had reported the level of LM adoption by local manufacturers was moderate (Nordin, Md Deros, & Abd Wahab, 2010b;Puvanasvaran et al, 2008;Wong et al, 2009). Nevertheless, Malaysian manufacturers continue to show high tendency of implementing LMS to pursue improvement in terms of product quality and durability according to a more recent survey (Yusup, Wan Mahmood, Salleh, & Mohd Yusof, 2014). As per the growing interest, federal government through Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) also have set interest and demonstrated commitment on Lean Management since 2011.…”

An Exploratory Study on Integrating Sustainability Aspects During the Acquisition of Production Equipment

“…Based on the research conducted by Yusup et al [26] it has been found that there is a strong correlation between lean and clean production practices, and the selection of production equipment affects the improvement of the working condition in shop-floor that facilitate the lean and clean production practice. Another research done by Iranmanesh et al [27] revealed that production equipment has a significant impact on sustainable performance, and the authors also claim that having lean culture moderates the impact of production equipment on sustainable performance.…”

An enquiry into competitive value of sustainable manufacturing capabilities

“…Further, initiatives like lean manufacturing and six sigma targeted towards improving the overall operational performance of a firm through minimisation of non-value-adding activities and waste also contribute towards sustainability in manufacturing (e.g. Yusup et al ., 2014; Abualfaraa et al ., 2020). All such SM-related actions, initiatives, techniques and programmes that enable manufacturing firms to incorporate sustainability in their products, processes and systems are widely known as sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) (Alayon et al ., 2016; Huang, 2017).…”