Implementing Total lifecycle product sustainability through true lean thinking

M. A. Maginnis, B. M. Hapuwatte, I. S. Jawahir

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Abstract

Recent expansion of the manufacturing industry’s customer requirements include product lifecycle considerations covering environmental, economic and societal concerns. Awareness for the need to implement sustainable manufacturing (SM) practice continues to grow but the implementation rate appears to be relatively slow. In cases where successful SM implementation depends on the ability to compete in the marketplace in terms of quality and cost, lean manufacturing concepts have been applied to help manage the product lifecycle. Unfortunately, most lean manufacturing applications in SM focus on the use of basic lean tools such as 5S, visual management and kanbans, etc., implemented as a series of management-directed projects or Kaizen activities without full engagement of the people doing the work. Consequently, improvements made under these conditions are often short-lived and relatively limited. True Lean benchmarks the Toyota Production System (TPS) and includes often overlooked critical operational elements aimed at developing and sustaining team member engagement for continuous improvement (CI). This paper discusses important concepts of sustainable PLM and True Lean and introduces an integrated model called the ‘Benevolent Production System’ as a guide to continuously improve total lifecycle product sustainability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProduct Lifecycle Management and the Industry of the Future - 14th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2017, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsJose Rios, Alain Bernard, Sebti Foufou, Abdelaziz Bouras
Pages544-553
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event14th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management and the Industry of the Future, PLM 2017 - Seville, Spain
Duration: Jul 10 2017Jul 12 2017

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume517
ISSN (Print)1868-4238

Conference

Conference14th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management and the Industry of the Future, PLM 2017
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySeville
Period7/10/177/12/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2017.

Keywords

  • 6R concept
  • Benevolent production system
  • Benevolent system
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Lean thinking
  • Life-cycle
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Sustainable manufacturing
  • Toyota production system
  • True lean

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems and Management

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