Integrated Lean Management System for Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Model

Abstract

Sustainability manufacturing practices like lean and green manufacturing seek to optimize production efficiency while minimizing environmental impact and maintaining social equity. It is also well knowing fact that company that adopt sustainable practices are able to achieve better quality, improved productivity and profitable growth. Among these lean is an important practice that leads us towards sustainability initiatives by eliminating waste at all levels in system and using the resources efficiently. In this paper an integrated lean sustainability development model has been proposed to integrate supplier, organization and customer.