Title: Assessment of human and system related barriers during implementation of green leagile Six Sigma in Indian manufacturing industries

Authors: Naveen Virmani; Urmi Ravindra Salve

Addresses: Institute of Management Studies (IMS) Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-201009, India ' Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, India

Abstract: There is a radical change in level of competition during past few years in manufacturing industries. Today, the customers desire high quality products at economical price and at in minimum span of time. So, it is required for industries to adopt manufacturing strategies in compliance with customer requirements and preferences. Also, there is a need of using greener and sustainable technologies to manufacture products. Therefore, it is imperative to produce economical products quickly while maintaining quality norms (ISO, OHSAS, etc.). For accomplishing these objectives, industries are required to adopt state-of-art technology, methods and research strategies to compete in the global market. In this paper, concept of green leagile Six Sigma has been discussed and human and system related barriers had been identified through literature review. EFA technique is used to categorise the attributes into constructs. CFA was used for model fit. Operational barrier is found to have profound effect in implementation of GLSS concept in the industries.

Keywords: green leagile Six Sigma; GLSS; agile; green; exploratory factor analysis; EFA; confirmatory factor analysis; CFA; lean; Six Sigma.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2022.121044

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2022 Vol.40 No.2, pp.157 - 180

Received: 13 Nov 2019
Accepted: 09 Jan 2020
Published online: 23 Feb 2022 *

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