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How Industry 4.0 and Lean Management Are Interrelated with Green Paradigm

Authors : Alessia Bilancia, Federica Costa, Alberto Portioli Staudacher

Published in: Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

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Recently, sustainability has been tackled several times due to the impending climate change the earth is facing. Numerous techniques have been applied to reverse the direction companies were going into. In this paper, it is explained the importance that Lean Manufacturing tools and Industry 4.0 technologies can have on the sustainable side of a company. The aim of this work is to fill the scientific gap related to studies deepening the combination of these different paradigms, Industry 4.0-Lean-Green, which have been scarcely investigated together. Thus, a Systematic Literature Review has been performed to detect which were the key variables of these three fields and then, it was studied what their interaction was. This study is giving the opportunity to understand the main variables of Industry 4.0 and Lean manufacturing on which companies have to act in order to have an impact on green variables and their overall sustainability.

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Metadata
Title
How Industry 4.0 and Lean Management Are Interrelated with Green Paradigm
Authors
Alessia Bilancia
Federica Costa
Alberto Portioli Staudacher
Copyright Year
2024
Book
Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-38164-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-38165-2

Copyright Year: 2024

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38165-2_40

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