Due to an increase in energy price and pollution plus environmental regulations, companies start to adopt green policies. In fact, companies are encouraged by governments to develop strategies to achieve more sustainable operations. Based on this literature review the contribution of Lean Manufacturing on environmental performances will be discussed, a survey of 50 different automotive companies based in Morocco, shows how they are carrying out manufacturing and environmental practices. The result of this study shows a positive impact of advanced Lean Manufacturing’s tools on the environmental performance and contribute to the present literature on environmentally friendly Manufacturing. The findings and proposals of this paper can be a beginning step for Moroccan companies to completely use their capability of environmental practices and improve their manufacturing productivity performance while identifying trends in organizational development.
During the past two decades, there has been an increase on maritime freight traffic particularly in container flow. Thus, the Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) can be considered among the primary optimization problems encountered in port terminals. In this paper, we address the Dynamic Berth Allocation Problem (DBAP) in a conventional layout terminal which differs from the popular discrete layout terminal in that each berth can serve multiple vessels simultaneously if their total length is equal or less than the berth length. Then, a Modified Sailfish Optimizer (MSFO) meta-heuristic based on hunting sailfish behavior is developed as an alternative for solving this problem. Finally, computational experiments and comparisons are presented to show the efficiency of our method against other methods presented in the literature in one hand. We also discuss the productivity of a container terminal based on different scenarios which can happen.
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