While organizations may desire to improve their impact on the environment; however, they lack a methodology for integrating Sustainability into their continuous improvement efforts. Lean is a concept to generate a continuous improvement system and eliminate waste throughout the organization from production to the supply chain, which improves quality, reduces costs, and adds value for customers. Lean focuses on increasing output with optimized usage of input resources by reducing waste and increasing process efficiency. Sustainable Green strategies focus on eliminating environmental wastes related to water, energy, air, and solid and hazardous waste. Lean and Green paradigms have a commonality in the context of waste reduction, continuous improvement, efficiency-driven improvement, and emphasis on cleaner production. This presentation will provide an integrated Lean Green Sustainability Framework. This framework includes Lean and Green Sustainability principles, tools, and methodologies from the quality improvement Plan-Do-Check-Act phases integrated with the circular economy 5 Rs of refuse, reflect, reduce, reuse, and recycle. The framework provides a simple yet powerful way to navigate Lean improvements that support Sustainability.

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