The application of Green Lean Six Sigma

Gholami, Hamed; Jamil, Norhazrina; Saman, Muhamad Zameri Mat; Štreimikienė, Dalia; Sharif, Safian; Zakuan, Norhayati

doi:10.1002/bse.2724

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“…However, this strategy does not address the life cycle aspects nor fully implement the environmental improvement initiatives, which pose challenges towards effectively achieving environmental sustainability goals (Banawi & Bilec, 2014; Zhang, 1999). Therefore, researchers have emphasized an integrated GLSS approach as an environmental management strategy to overcome the drawbacks of GL and LSS combinations (Garza‐Reyes, 2015; Gholami et al, 2021). Such an integrated strategy can improve the environmental performance by identifying environmental impacts and removing waste, with common characteristics of waste reduction, value addition, and customer satisfaction (Farrukh et al, 2020; Gaikwad & Sunnapwar, 2020).…”

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“…To achieve these objectives, a green‐lean‐six sigma (GLSS) strategy is proposed (Garza‐Reyes, 2015) as one of the promising approaches in which green addresses the environmental waste, lean removes non‐value‐adding activities and reduces operational waste, and six sigma minimizes defects and controls process variation. It is argued that the application of these strategies in an integrated way provides significant environmental benefits (Banawi & Bilec, 2014; Gholami et al, 2021).…”

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A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management

2021

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Green-lean-six sigma (GLSS) is an evolving strategy that can be applied in the manufacturing context to address pressing environmental issues. However, due to a lack of research in this area, investigating the motivations behind GLSS implementation is crucial to develop a deeper understanding of factors that shape the overall environmental management strategy of a firm. Drawing on the natural-resource-based view and institutional theory, we explore the GLSS drivers and compare developed and developing country contexts by conducting in-depth interviews with senior consultants specializing in GLSS implementation from New Zealand (NZ) and Pakistan (PK). Findings reveal that the key drivers of GLSS adoption in NZ are general environmental awareness, creating a company image, and government pressure, whereas the main drivers for PK include cost reduction, international customers' influence, and competitiveness. These findings throw light on the reasons for GLSS adoption in different regions and have significant theoretical and practical implications towards improving environmental performance.

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A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management

2021

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“…DMAIC-based methodology is proposed to use sustainable VSM for sustainable manufacturing [28]. The terminology of Green Lean Six Sigma for sustainable VSM is adopted in [24]. An operational entropy model of operation-logistics systems in order to determine the operational efficiency has been developed and used in a case study in [54].…”

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Entropy-Based Lean, Energy and Six Sigma Approach to Achieve Sustainability in Manufacturing System

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Badar

2021

Arab J Sci Eng

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This work proposes a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to be used in manufacturing industry that combines Lean, Energy and Six-Sigma methodologies. Lean's VSM tool is amended to energy VSM so that the value-added and non-valueadded approach can be used to determine the energy use and waste. In order to identify the maximum rejection or rework at a workstation, an entropy-based mathematical model is developed and a Lean-Energy-Six Sigma Value Stream Mapping (LESSVSM) is presented. The model can be used in manufacturing at product level where temperature and energy can be measured from input to output. The model has been implemented on a manufacturing system containing four workstations. The proposed LESSVSM model will help to industry to become more sustainable as it can minimize energy and waste in the case of rework and rejection. This study presents a systematic approach which researchers and practitioners can apply for sustainable manufacturing.

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“…It should also be noted that there exists a research gap whereby the circular economy was not discussed in the available literature. Hence, future studies should touch on the sustainability-oriented VSM in the new paradigm of circular economy such that the investigation of [78] involved Environmental-VSM in facilitating the process of moving towards a circular business strategy or [79] that investigated how VSM can be extended to incorporate the critical aspects of circular economy. On top of that, the research on the convergence of this sustainability-oriented application and IR 4.0 should be also strengthened in future discussions for the sake of sustainable value stream development as the adoption of the IR 4.0 technologies in production will lead to greater efficiencies [62].…”

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Sustainability-Oriented Application of Value Stream Mapping: A Review and Classification

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Notwithstanding the research on refining lean tools for the sake of sustainable development is slowly progressing, sustainability-oriented application of value stream mapping has received undivided attention from practitioners and researchers. Going through the literature highlights that there is a lack of research in integrating and systematising the available knowledge on this lean tool, which is regarded as a visual process-based method to make sustainable progress over the time-based and green concepts of wastes to also assess and improve the societal sustainability performance of organisations. Hence, this paper has been aimed at presenting the findings of a systematic literature review on value stream mapping from the triple bottom line point of view. It classifies and codes the main studies in the context as well as provides a research agenda with nine recommendations that may advance this under-studied field. To narrow the gap in the current literature, this article also proposes a sustainability indicator set that would considerably contribute to guiding and strengthening the state-of-the-art research on successful implementation of the application. Besides, the findings indicate that more investigations are needed on employing survey and conceptual methodologies, applying comparative and cross-industry perspectives, developing sustainability indicator sets particularly societal metrics, and considering the stakeholders' benefits from adopting sustainability-oriented value stream mapping. The research on the convergence of this sustainability-oriented application and new paradigms such as IR 4.0 and/or Circular Economy should be also strengthened.

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The application of Green Lean Six Sigma

Cited by 58 publications

References 78 publications

A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management

A natural resource and institutional theory‐based view of green‐lean‐six sigma drivers for environmental management

Entropy-Based Lean, Energy and Six Sigma Approach to Achieve Sustainability in Manufacturing System

Sustainability-Oriented Application of Value Stream Mapping: A Review and Classification

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