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The extended application of value stream mapping has more recently been clarified to fulfill the triple bottom line requirements in the manufacturing systems. Thus, there is a glaring lack of literature on this sustainable-oriented lean tool, among these minute studies, the research attention has mainly been given to the environmental issues, large...
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... purposed Socio-VSM methodology, which is a potential extension of Conventional VSM method, a case study was carried out in a Malaysian hard disc drive substrate manufacturing industry, henceforth referred to as 'substrate'. Specifically, the application focused on the electro-less nickel plating (EN-Plating) process on aluminum discs, as shown in Fig. 1. An EN-Plating process entails the depositing of a layer of Nickel-Phosphorus coating using an auto-catalytic reaction substrate without having to pass an electric current through the aqueous solution. Several main industries employ this electro-less technology including printed circuit boards and manufactured hard disk drives, which ...
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... to Fig. 1, the EN-Plating process starts at the Racking station, where the incoming substrate arrives via conveyer, and subsequently put into a cassette box at 25 pieces each. Next, 4 cassette boxes which is equal to 100 pieces of substrate are moved to 1 spindle and subsequently into 1 rack. 1 rack contains 14 pieces of spindle which is equal ...
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... this case study, the Racking and Unracking process steps (see Fig.1) are carried out by two operators, who perform similar actions. ...
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... noise exposure to workers have been established by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia [53] as hearing loss incidences among workers have been reported to be a serious global issue. In the current case study, the noise level distribution in the EN-Plating process is illustrated by mapping the noise level (dB) in each process (Fig. 1). Each of the process is assigned with a particular measurement point so as to attain accurate noise level readings. OSHA [50] indicated that the maximum exposure to noise level is only 85dB for duration of not more than 8 hours. Noise level meter tools were accordingly used to easily and accurately measure industrial noise level. The ...
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... EN-Plating process is also assessed using the work environment EHPS circle which employs a rating system of 1-5 (Fig. 3), each assigned to a potential risk category related to a certain process according to the possibility and impact of that risk [1]. For instance, in the case study, at the Racking process step (see Fig.1), the potential risks exist due to the presence of electrical systems and high-speed components, but they have low impact and probability of occurring. Thus, the potential work environmental risk rating for the electrical systems (E) and high-speed components (S) metrics of the Racking process step would be both '1' in the visual symbol of EHPS circle (see Fig. 3). ...
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... 2019 incorporated into the current-state map using the adapted methodology for constructing a traditional VSM proposed by [29]. Resultantly, the value stream blueprint is developed where each process step is described in the data boxes (see Appendix A) with the matching societal metrics values. The sequence of the Socio-VSM is the same as that in Fig. ...
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... purposed Socio-VSM methodology, which is a potential extension of Conventional VSM method, a case study was carried out in a Malaysian hard disc drive substrate manufacturing industry, henceforth referred to as 'substrate'. Specifically, the application focused on the electro-less nickel plating (EN-Plating) process on aluminum discs, as shown in Fig. ...
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... to Fig. 1, the EN-Plating process starts at the Racking station, where the incoming substrate arrives via conveyer, and subsequently put into a cassette box at 25 pieces each. Next, 4 cassette boxes which is equal to 100 pieces of substrate are moved to 1 spindle and subsequently into 1 rack. 1 rack contains 14 pieces of spindle which is equal ...
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... this case study, the Racking and Unracking process steps (see Fig.1) are carried out by two operators, who perform similar actions. ...
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... noise exposure to workers have been established by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia [53] as hearing loss incidences among workers have been reported to be a serious global issue. In the current case study, the noise level distribution in the ENPlating process is illustrated by mapping the noise level (dB) in each process (Fig. 1). Each of the process is assigned with a particular measurement point so as to attain accurate noise level readings. OSHA [50] indicated that the maximum exposure to noise level is only 85dB for duration of not more than 8 hours. Noise level meter tools were accordingly used to easily and accurately measure industrial noise ...
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... EN-Plating process is also assessed using the work environment EHPS circle which employs a rating system of 1-5 (Fig. 3), each assigned to a potential risk category related to a certain process according to the possibility and impact of that risk [1]. For instance, in the case study, at the Racking process step (see Fig.1), the potential risks exist due to the presence of electrical systems and high-speed components, but they have low impact and probability of occurring. Thus, the potential work environmental risk rating for the electrical systems (E) and high-speed components (S) metrics of the Racking process step would be both '1' in the visual symbol of EHPS circle (see Fig. 3). ...
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... are incorporated into the current-state map using the adapted methodology for constructing a traditional VSM proposed by [29]. Resultantly, the value stream blueprint is developed where each process step is described in the data boxes (see Appendix A) with the matching societal metrics values. The sequence of the Socio-VSM is the same as that in Fig. ...
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... As a first step in Stage 2, the LVs involved in the models in Figs. 2 and 3 were graphically represented, that is, the system components were identified, how they interact with each other, and how they influence the overall system behavior to have a visual and structured understanding of how the system works. This process is one of the most important since improvement in industry begin when all variables are identified (Gholami et al., 2019). ...
Please cite this article as: Díaz-Reza, J. R., Mousavi, S. H., Sánchez-Ramírez, C., & García-Alcaraz, J. L. (2024). Achieving social sustainability through lean manufacturing practices: Insights from structural equation model and system dynamics. Journal of Cleaner Production, 141453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141453
... Improved lean manufacturing, such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM) (Dewi et al., 2021), shows better visualization potential for assessing sustainability by incorporating triple bottom lines (Hartini et al.). Many authors anticipate that significant support will continue to flow toward the development and application of VSM due to its growing popularity and proven effectiveness (Gholami et al., 2019). VSM is now widely used in modified forms incorporating sustainability considerations. ...
... Taking into account the environmental aspect, sustainable products can be designed and developed with a focus on minimizing negative environmental impacts through incorporating principles such as resource efficiency, renewable materials, energy conservation, waste reduction, and low emissions (Jawahir et al. 2006;De Silva et al. 2009;Jayal et al. 2010;Shuaib et al. 2014;Letchumanan et al. 2022). Taking into account the social aspect, sustainable products take into account social facets of development by ensuring fair working conditions, respect for human rights, and social inclusion throughout the product lifecycle as well as by improving livelihoods and enhancing the quality of life for communities, especially in developing regions (Gholami et al. 2019;Jamil et al. 2020;Lee et al. 2021). Taking into account the economic aspect, sustainable products are not only environmentally and socially responsible but also economically viable; they can support the transition to a green economy by driving innovation generate economic growth while minimizing negative externalities, offering long-term economic benefits to individuals, businesses, and societies at large (Ren et al. 2019;Joshi et al. 2022;Gholami et al. 2023). ...
Big data has become a thrilling milestone for gaining new opportunities and improving performance. Recent research indicated that big data analytics-the fourth paradigm of science-has the potential to develop business practices and sustainable operations; yet, concerning its contribution to developing sustainable products, there is a notable lack of knowledge and uncertainty. Thus, this study aims to investigate the contribution of big data analytics to developing sustainable products; the products that benefit the triple bottom line, i.e., economy, environment, and society. As such, the method of the Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution is employed. The findings revealed that big data analytics could make a considerable contribution to developing the efficiency of product end-of-life management, among other product sustainability criteria identified. Such an appraisal, which is of critical importance to sustainable development, can be beneficial to decision makers and those who are keen to gain a better knowledge of big data analytics and its contribution to developing sustainable products.
... The main reason for the inspection and reporting of the causes of casualties is the ability to identify necessary corrective actions to prevent the recurrence of casualties, as a result, to protect the health and safety of the community, workers and the environment [33]. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a problem-solving method that became popular with the implementation of the Toyota production system and the lean manufacturing approach, which assists manufacturing companies in their continuous improvement processes, particularly in areas such as production cost, productivity, quality, and maintenance [1,10,20]. RCA is an investigative process that takes place after a production disturbance occurs. Its main objective is to identify the root causes of the issue and implement corrective actions [3,24]. ...
To continue gas production at the South Zagros Oil and Gas Production Company, which is the understudied case, several factors for reducing the stoppage of production are faced. This indicates that the root cause analysis (RCA) of the equipment related to gas production (control panels) is required since it has been widely adopted as a central method to learn from mistakes and mitigate hazards. Using an efficient and effective method in RCA, one can determine the cause of the failures. Thus, this study aims to apply an appropriate RCA-based approach to reduce the failure factors and subsequently improve the performance of gas extraction in the understudied context. After reviewing the records of the past research, and according to the Ministry of Petroleum Implementation, the root cause failure phases of the equipment (control panels) were systematically carried out. Initially, the RCA team consisted of specialized experts in the region. After collecting the required data, the group began the research process and discovered the physical, human, and unknown causes using the logical tree method and the PROACT approach. Once the hypotheses have been validated, the root causes of equipment failures are ultimately identified. The analytical team has come up with solutions and then prioritization of them in the final stage. The findings revealed that identifying and overcoming the root causes of equipment failure will save on the organization's facilities and costs, and subsequently sustainable production of gas that is particularly susceptible to various problems.
... • In the social pillar, employee happiness and human resources are the two key components. The significant factors for measuring staff satisfaction in this area revolve around absenteeism, teamwork, and motivation finally, the skillful operator in human resources [58]. • The I4.0 methodology sums up these digital solutions. ...
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a standard Lean tool for identifying and reducing waste. It is used to create value and improve the performance of any industry. The value of the VSM has greatly expanded from conventional to smart over time; hence, researchers and practitioners in this sector are paying more emphasis. Comprehensive review research is needed to understand VSM-based smart, sustainable development from a triple-bottom-line perspective. The primary goal of this research is to look at various insights from the historical literature that can help with the adoption of smart, sustainable development through VSM. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) with a fifteen-year time range (2008–2022) is being considered to study various insights and gaps in value stream mapping. Analysis of the significant outcomes presents an eight-point study agenda: year, national context, research method, sector, wastes, VSM type, applied tools, and analysis indicators. The critical finding implies that empirical qualitative research dominates the research sector. Effective VSM implementation requires balancing the three sustainable dimensions of economic, environmental, and social through digitalization. The circular economy should also bolster research on the intersection of sustainability applications and new digital paradigms such as industry revolution 4.0.
... Subsequently, the academic community proposed approaches such as green VSM and environmental VSM to improve the effectiveness of VSM in analyzing green and environmental issues in manufacturing system. With the development of those research, some scholars suggested that the current research attention has mainly been given to the environmental issues, largely neglecting the societal aspects (Gholami et al., 2019). Therefore, the view of triple bottom line, circular economy, 3 R and 6 R continue to be mentioned by other scholars to achieve a more comprehensive VSM application (Galvão et al., 2020;Lee et al., 2021). ...
Purpose-Value stream mapping (VSM) is a visualization tool to identify and eliminate waste and widely applied in manufacturing, transportation, construction, service and other industries, especially in the Industrial 4.0 technology era. The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the VSM literature to identify the advances and hotspots of VSM literature.
Design/methodology/approach-Taking the VSM literature collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database as the research samples, this research used the bibliometric and keyword co-occurrence analysis to analyze the publication trend, research topics and their contents of VSM from concept integration, application sectors and technology expansion.
Findings-With the development of research, the latest research integrates conceptual integration, application departments and technology expansion to develop more complex research designs. It can be integrated with simulation, six sigma, big data, Internet of Things and other technologies to expand the analysis and design ability of VSM, which enhances the adaptability of VSM to various scenarios.
Originality/value-This research contributes to VSM literature by conducting a systematic review based on the citation structure within VSM research and identifies the established and emerging areas of research on VSM.
... While the environmental and economic perspectives of VSM have been addressed in many research studies, wherein few studies have focused on the social dimension of sustainability. To address this, [22] suggested a Social-VSM methodology for visualizing and measuring the societal sustainability performance of products. ...
... Thus, there is always a need for sustainable manufacturing development due to a number of prevailing issues such as the depletion of non-renewable resources, more stringent environmental and occupational safety/health regulations, and the growing penchant for environmentally-friendly products, among many others [5,6,7,8]. Sustainable manufacturing entails the manufacturing of more sustainable products-energyefficient, eco-friendly, and socially-responsible-by using sustainable processes and systems, i.e., those which produce minimal adverse environmental impacts, conserve energy and natural resources, are harmless to people, and are economically viable [9,10,11,12]. However, according to [13], "there are many insufficient attempts, including a partially integral approach, almost all fall short because they largely deal with products and processes, but fail to stress the interconnectivity among the three integral elements involved in manufacturing (products, processes and systems), and show the basis for sustainable value creation an economic growth (p. ...
The growing need for ‘sustainable development’ and the existence of monumental wastes and unsustainable patterns have made scientific movements worldwide towards an emerging paradigm—Sustainable Manufacturing—which is also regarded as an application of the circularity principle to production under the emergent concept of circular economy. To create a significant outlook, however, understanding the topics of concern and giving the opportunity of widening collaboration networks are required. As such, this research aims to analyse the research trends in the sustainable manufacturing area using the bibliometric analytic method. The data for this study was extracted from the Scopus database until May 2021 based on the descriptive data of publication outputs, resulting in retrieving a total of 4802 journal articles reported between 1979 and 2021. The analysis revealed that the published documents were continuously increased every year since 2006, accordingly there was a dramatic growth in the cumulative total publications hitherto. This indicates the growing global interests of the scientific community in sustainable manufacturing, expecting to continue to rise due to its unique intellectual contributor to ‘our common future’. The United States and China were the two core contributing countries, respectively, with a large number of publications and strong collaboration networks. About 40% of the total research articles from the top ten journals were published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. Some areas newly investigated with sustainable manufacturing, which would be potential interesting topics for future research, were also discussed. Keywords: Sustainability, Sustainable development, Manufacturing, Production, Circular economy, Bibliometric analysis, VOSviewer, Scopus database
... Sustainable manufacturing, which has also been viewed as a practice of the circularity in manufacturing under the circular economy concept (Jawahir and Bradley, 2016;Enyoghasi and Badurdeen, 2021), entails developing more sustainable products-energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and socially-responsible-using sustainable processes and systems, i.e., those which produce minimal adverse environmental effects, conserve energy and natural resources, are harmless to people and viable to profit (Jayal et al., 2010;Gholami et al., 2019). This implies that there is always a need for developing SM compartments due to a number of prevailing issues such as the depletion of non-renewable resources, more stringent environmental and occupational health/safety regulations, and the growing penchant for environmentally-friendly products, amongst many others (Jamil et al., 2020;Lee et al., 2021). ...
To contribute to a growing global research interest that has evolved toward augmenting the economic, environmental, and societal values of Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing context, this study is intended to (1) survey the applicability of Industry 4.0 technologies in each of the triple bottom lines at the product level and (2) scrutinize the technologies based on product sustainability criteria using the application of the fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. Yet, there is a significant paucity of knowledge and uncertainty about the applicability of these technologies to developing sustainable products, hence providing an opportunity for innovative research. To be a sound assessment, this study investigates the perceptions of professional technologists, who play an important role as both internal and external stakeholders in addressing technological issues within organizations including multinationals. The findings obtained by the survey indicated the applicability level of six major technologies in contributing to product-level sustainability. The findings obtained by the fuzzy-based application revealed that ‘Big Data Analytics’ has the highest performance for developing sustainable products. Such an assessment, which is of critical importance to sustainable development, would be beneficial to policy-and decision-makers seeking to get a better understanding of the technologies and their applicability to sustainable products development.
... Therefore, the socio-ecological footprint combined with VSM can provide analysis of production metrics, such as the consumption of electricity in a sector (IKATRINASARI, HASIBUAN;KOSASIH, 2018); the percentage of reuse of water (or any reagent) from a machine or of gases expelled into the environment (SIMONS; MASON, 2010); the influence of work on employees (ergonomics) (GHOLAMI et al., 2019); measuring the effects of certain processes on food (WESANA et al., 2019); or even to show the company's performance in meeting international standards regarding its environmental impact (VINODH; BEM RUBEN; ASKAN, 2016), which makes sustainable development an essential element in more recent research using VSM. ...
... . The article byFaulkner and Badurdeen (2014) proposes, through the so-called Sus-VSM, the performance evaluation focused on the sustainability of a company, increasing metrics of a sustainable nature of works that dealt with the same issue.Garza-Reyes et al. (2018) aimed to present a mixed approach withEnvironmental VSM (E-VSM) and the PDCA cycle.Gholami et al. (2019) propose to address the gap that exists in the studies of the application of sustainable VSM with emphasis on the social aspect. The study was applied to a hard disk substrate manufacturing company in Malaysia. InGunduz and Naser (2017) the objective was to apply the idea of VSM related to costs in the construction industry. The concept ...
The concept of lean manufacturing provides productivity, quality,and waste reduction to organizations and the adoption of its tools promotes the improvement of production processes and waste reduction. Value Stream Mapping(VSM) provides an analysis of the company's processes, highlighting events where actions are necessary to continuously improve the organization's internal processes. This study sought to highlight VSM collaborations in the fields of healthcare and sustainable development. The results of the systematic review highlighted 47 articles covering the VSM tool outside the manufacturing environment, as well as its participation in different contexts in caringfor the well-being of people and in the search for sustainable development.
