Abstract
Abstract Due to an increase in energy price and pollution plus environmental regulations, companies start to adopt green policies. In fact, companies are encouraged by governments to develop strategies to achieve more sustainable operations. Based on this literature review the contribution of Lean Manufacturing on environmental performances will be discussed, a survey of 50 different automotive companies based in Morocco, shows how they are carrying out manufacturing and environmental practices. The result of this study shows a positive impact of advanced Lean Manufacturing’s tools on the environmental performance and contribute to the present literature on environmentally friendly Manufacturing. The findings and proposals of this paper can be a beginning step for Moroccan companies to completely use their capability of environmental practices and improve their manufacturing productivity performance while identifying trends in organizational development.
Highlights
In a context of high competition, companies aim to be more competitive to ensure their position in the market
Ng [23] presented a new metric called “Carbon-Value Efficiency”. This approach is the result of integration the Lean and green manufacturing. Thanks to this method that was applied in a case study of metal stamped parts products, the results showed that Carbon-Value Efficiency can be improved by 36.3%, lead time has been improved by 64.7% and reduction in carbon footprint by 29.9% [22]
METHODOLOGIE OF RESEARCH Quantitative data method collection has been used for this study, the main objective of this research is to give a depth understanding of organizations in Morocco related to Lean Manufacturing and environmental performance [16]
Summary
In a context of high competition, companies aim to be more competitive to ensure their position in the market. Thanks to Lean Manufacturing companies have reduce their wastes efficiently and increase their profitability, nowadays with new environmental concerns, companies start focusing on sustainable development to respect the actual & future legislation and adopt environmentally friendly policies. Lean Manufacturing can be defined as doing more with less, based on the Toyota Production System, it focuses on eliminating activities that consumes resources without creating value, called wastes. The relationship between one or some of the Lean practices and the environmental performance will be analyzed with a focus on Moroccan automotive industry. Regarding the outcome of this studies, most of them pointed out that there is a positive relationship between Lean Manufacturing practices and the improvements in the environmental performance
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