Limited resource availability and the negative environmental and societal impacts of
traditional manufacturing have motivated the need for sustainable manufacturing. Product …

Purpose Manufacturers and engineers need a practical and operational way to understand
sustainable manufacturing and to apply it to their shop floors. The single index enables …

Manufacturing sustainability performance evaluation is critical for improving the production
line's performance. Three aspects involved in manufacturing sustainability are economic …

The furniture industry is suspected to have triggered global warming. The need for wood as
raw material becomes a necessity for cutting down trees. The concept of a circular economy …

This study aims to design a sustainable value stream map** (Sus-VSM) as a basis for
improving the sustainability performance of an animal feed production process. The …

The lean manufacturing system has proved its capability to eliminate waste and produce
environmental gains. The integration of sustainable manufacturing indicators in lean …

Corporations and their supply chains have to go through significant changes to become
more sustainable as society is pressing for sustainable systems. To this end, it is critical to …

Companies recognise lean practices to be a useful methodology for the reaching of more
efficient performances in manufacturing processes. Moreover, there is growing attention by …

Fast changing customer taste, increasing global competition, and stiffer environmental
norms forced organisations worldwide to device novel manufacturing strategy. The present …

This paper proposes a methodology to develop life cycle-value stream map** (LC-VSM)
to evaluate sustainability using lean manufacturing approach. This new tool will analyze all …