Sustainable lean redesign of manufacturing enterprises Online publication date: Tue, 06-Nov-2018
by Guozhang Jiang; Zhongyuan Li; Le Yang; Feng Xiang; Gongfa Li
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 15, No. 3, 2018
Abstract: Lean manufacturing has been widely used to develop manufacturing processes. Lack of lean and lean-over is a common problem in the process of production. Searching for sustainable lean production has become a hot research topic. Through research on the factors influencing lean sustainability, a lean redesign method is proposed. Reconstructing the traditional lean indicators and the sustainability indicators from the three aspects of economy, society and environment to regenerate the lean redesign indicators, determine the sustainability evaluation methods in the production process, and integrate them into the VSM (Value Stream Mapping). Describing the manufacturing system use redesign VSM and assess the lean sustainability of the manufacturing system to improve productivity. Case studies show that lean redesign method determines the level of lean sustainability in each operation and describes manufacturing systems in more detail than traditional methods to help enterprises make reasonable decisions, and establish their lean sustainability aims.
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