Towards Eco-efficient Lean Production Systems

Moreira, Francisco; Alves, Anabela Carvalho; Sousa, Rui M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14341-0_12

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“…Environmental lean management fully integrates with the green-oriented LM model, combining the basic principles of LM (i.e., the five basic principles [39]) with those green principles (e.g., better use of natural resources and the reduction environmental impact [4]) in order to create a unique integrated model.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This idea is reflected, for example, in the study by Moreira et al [4], which explores other forms of loss in value (environmental impacts, energy consumption, material consumption, and emissions) to demonstrate that environmental liabilities are hidden inside of classic lean manufacturing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In combination with the above principles, companies can apply different types of environmental practices to improve their productivity in the use of natural resources, such as energy and materials, and to reduce the related environmental impacts of their activities [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(1) The Lean Management (LM) as a highly competitive production model [3,4]; (2) The Industrial Ecology (IE) as a framework of principles and tools of environmental analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Industrial Ecology and Environmental Lean Management: Lights and Shadows

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Current industrial production is driven by increasing globalization, which has led to a steady increase in production volumes and complexity of products aimed at the pursuit of meeting the needs of customers. In this context, one of the main tools in the management of customer value is Lean Manufacturing or Production, though it is considered primarily as a set of tools to reduce the total cost of the resources needed to achieve such needs. This philosophy has recently been enriched in the literature with case studies that link Lean Management (LM) with the improvement of environmental sustainability. The consequence is an expansion of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM); indeed, CIM, currently, combining and integrating the key business functions (e.g., business, engineering, manufacturing, and information management) with a view of the life cycle, does not highlight the strategic role of the environmental aspects. In order to deal with the increasingly rapid environmental degradation that is reflected in society, in terms of both economy and quality of life, Industrial Ecology (IE) introduced a new paradigm of principles and instruments of analysis and decision support (e.g., Life Cycle Assessment-LCA, Social Life Cycle Assessment -SLCA, Material Flow Account-MFA, etc.) that can be considered as the main basis for integrating the environmental aspects in each strategy, design, production, final product, and end of life management, through the re-engineering of processes and activities towards the development of an eco-industrial OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 6363 system. This paper presents the preliminary observations based on a analysis of both theories (LM-IE) and provides a possible assessment of the key factors relevant to their integration in a "lean environmental management", highlighting both positives (lights) and possible barriers (shadows).

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Section: Theory and Methods-lean Management And Industrial Ecologymentioning

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“…(1) The Lean Management (LM) as a highly competitive production model [3,4]; (2) The Industrial Ecology (IE) as a framework of principles and tools of environmental analysis.…”

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“…Lean manufacturing can be used to improve resource requirements of making products such as the demand in both materials and energy (Moreira et al, 2010). Lean can be used to achieve these requirements by using a set of techniques and tools such as Heijunka, Six Sigma, Kanbans, First In-First Out (FIFO), Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Takt time, Just In Time (JIT), Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED), and 5 S principles (Aghajani et al, 2012).…”

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Incorporating lean thinking and life cycle assessment to reduce environmental impacts of plastic injection moulded products

Cheung

Leong

Vichare

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tIn the last decades, environmental footprint of the product manufacture has emerged as an important public concern, causing manufacturers to re-assess their product's environmental impacts. Responding to global outcry on global warming, world leaders have agreed to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 C above the temperature in pre-industrial times. As a result, governments and industrial leaders around the world have proposed a roadmap for 80% emissions reduction by 2050. The aim of this work develops a novel approach of linking Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Lean manufacturing to reduce the negative environmental impacts of a plastic injection moulded product. Products that use plastic as their primary source of raw materials are mainly produced by plastic injection processes. Although plastic injection moulding has many benefits such as 'high production rates', there is a lack of through investigation on the effects of this process has on the environment such as climate change, ozone depletion etc. This paper proposes a novel cross-functional mapping approach of linking lean-thinking and LCA. The implementation case study has been presented with the view to re-assess carbon footprint of an existing plastic product. The reported implementation work demonstrates that the adaptation of lean thinking and LCA could significantly minimise negative environmental impacts of a plastic injection product. A case study indicates that the overall environmental impact has been reduced by approximately 40% in climate change, human toxicity, photochemical oxidant formation, acidification and ecotoxicity.

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Could lean practices and process innovation enhance supply chain sustainability of small and medium‐sized enterprises?

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Small and medium sized enterprises adopt lean practices (LP) to reduce waste across their organisational value chain, which helps achieve sustainability. Process innovation (PI) has also been applied through cleaner production, environmental management system, eco-design etc. to address both customers" needs and legislations by policymakers. Although prior studies reveal the effect of sustainable practices, LP, and PI on sustainable performance separately less is known on the integrated effect of them on sustainability performance. Moreover, studies on mediating effect of LP and PI on sustainability performance is scant. This is significant as LP and PI are considered to be the enablers for achieving sustainability performance. This research addresses this knowledge gap. The research first theorises a model integrating these four major constructs (Sustainability practices, LP, PI and Sustainability performance) through hypotheses development. Subsequently, using structural equation modelling it is tested whether each of sustainability practices, LP, and PI effect sustainability performances. Additionally, mediating effect of LP and PI between sustainability practices and performances is derived. The study uses data from 119 SMEs within manufacturing industries in the Midlands, UK. Further, a few case studies have been undertaken to validate the findings from quantitative analysis. The overall results show that although sustainability practices, LP and PI help achieve sustainability performance of SMEs supply chain through efficiency and responsiveness respectively, the mediating effect LP is more compared to PI. Moreover, SMEs adopt LP when they are economy focused and implement PI when they are pressurised by customers and / or policymakers.

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Towards Eco-efficient Lean Production Systems

Cited by 59 publications

References 13 publications

Industrial Ecology and Environmental Lean Management: Lights and Shadows

Industrial Ecology and Environmental Lean Management: Lights and Shadows

Incorporating lean thinking and life cycle assessment to reduce environmental impacts of plastic injection moulded products

Could lean practices and process innovation enhance supply chain sustainability of small and medium‐sized enterprises?

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