Rising energy costs and the current concern about sustainability issues directly impact the
competitiveness and survival of organizations, promoting the search for continuous …

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 …

The challenge of agility for adopting new business norms creates the need for measuring
performance under changing conditions. This study aims to demonstrate the financial and …

Value stream mapping is an effective tool of lean manufacturing to reduce the wastage in
any process by segregating value added and non-value added activities. The present work …

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 …

This paper presents a review of literature on extended VSM to enhance sustainable
manufacturing. Literature review was done using two viewpoints. First, analyzed of the …

Abstract In the industry, Lean Production Systems have been successfully used for years to
reduce lead times. The value-stream mapping method (VSM) has proven itself to be the best …

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

In a world of increasing population, this book explores the ways in which technological
progress can provide smart energy management strategies to maximize resources. Energy …

The manufacturing industries in India are gearing up to face the challenges namely the
quality, timely delivery and satisfying customer need. This prompted some large …