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There are a lot of economic and social reasons in why manufacturers would need to reduce their impact on the environment, whereby many economic, social and environmental opportunities are being missed on becoming greener without larger investments. The application of lean focuses on the flow between value-adding operations and the removal of waste and non-value adding activities. This paper introduces an analogy that can be drawn with energy efficiency in that savings can be achieved through a modified lean tool; value stream mapping (VSM), via integrating sustainability indicators and measurements with the lean standards, which leads to achieve more sustainable outcomes and savings within the manufacturing stream as well as post-manufacturing stage.
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