Sustainable lean six-sigma green engineering system design educational challenges and interactive multimedia solutions

Lean and green – a systematic review of the state of the art literature

“…that have been later adopted and adapted across a wide range of other industries. In the case of green and lean, the literature review suggests a similar trend where the manufacturing sector, once more, has taken the research lead, followed by a slow transition into other industries such as construction (Banawi and Bilec, 2014;Sertyesilisik, 2014), aluminium electrolysis substations (Cluzel et al, 2010), agrifood (Folinas et al, 2014), ports (Esmemr et al, 2010), education (Ranky et al, 2012) and process (Vais et al, 2006).…”

“…supply chain and operation/process) covered lean-green as their main topic. In the case of the 16 publications where lean-green were an additional element, this was mainly because other concepts and/or methods such as globalisation (Mollenkopf et al, 2010), innovation (Aguado et al, 2013), resilience (Cabral et al, 2012;Govindan et al, 2013;Cabral et al, 2011a;Cabral et al, 2011b;Espadinha-Cruz et al, 2011;Carvalho et al, 2014), agile (Cabral et al, 2012;Sertyesilisik, 2014;Cabral et al, 2011a;Cabral et al, 2011b;Espadinha-Cruz et al, 2011;Carvalho et al, 2014), total quality (Salleh et al, 2012), project management (Sertyesilisik, 2014) and Six Sigma (Banawi and Bilec, 2014;Cluzel et al, 2010;Ranky et al, 2012) were considered alongside the lean-green paradigms. This demonstrates that researchers have tried to address the intersection of lean-green with other strategic initiatives to study and take advantage of their synergies through concurrent implementation and address trade-offs that may arise due to their incompatibilities (Mollenkopf et al, 2010).…”

“…However, some authors consider that not only the trade-offs between lean and green but also other paradigms such as agile and resilience may help operations/processes and supply chains to become more efficient, streamlined and sustainable. For this reason, authors such as Carvalho et al (2011), Carvalho et al (2014, Cabral et al (2011a), Cabral et al (2011b), Cabral et al (2012), EspadinhaCruz et al (2011) and Ranky et al (2012) have investigated the concessions of the lean, agile, resilient and green (LARG) paradigms. In particular, information and analytical network process models have been proposed by Cabral et al (2011a), Cabral et al (2011b) and Cabral et al (2012) to support the integration of LARG in supply chains, while Espadinha-Cruz et al (2011) developed a model to evaluate their interoperability.…”

“…On the other hand, other authors including Banawi and Bilec (2014), Garza-Reyes et al (2014), Garza-Reyes (2015), Ranky et al (2012) and Salleh et al (2012) have also considered the assimilation of the quality paradigm with the lean and green paradigms. For example, Garza-Reyes et al (2014) and Garza-Reyes (2015) highlighted the need to integrating Six Sigma as part of the green lean approach, while Banawi and Bilec (2014) have proposed a lean-green-Six Sigma integrating method for a construction process.…”

On the Presence of Green and Sustainable Software Engineering in Higher Education Curricula

“…Starting from the results of the study by Manotas et al [20], and the far-reaching importance of topics such as greenability and sustainability [3] especially for millennial teaching and learning [31], we surveyed 33 researchers with experience in green and sustainability software engineering [1] (GSSE) to appraise this field, and to offer a first support to the software engineering (SE) community in the development of courses and curricula addressing GSSE. This study has the merit to be the first that surveys the state of education as well as some of the factors necessary for the development of a highereducation curricula in GSSE, which might be of great value for millennials.…”