The Development of Sustainable Manufacturing Practices and Sustainable Performance in Malaysian Automotive Industry

Abstract

This paper shows a model to conduct an empirical study in Malaysian automotive industry in order to improve their sustainable performance. The problems of sustainability are becoming a global concern by many manufacturing companies especially in automotive industry. The sustainability research in this study targets the measures and studies at the three basic elemental levels involved; environmental, economic and social. The presented review categorizes the literature into three main research areas; sustainable manufacturing practices, sustaining lean improvements, and sustainable performance. Also, the text attempts to draw the link between these research themes, expose any relationship and inter-relationships, and discuss the physics behind some of the sustainability models presented to analyze the automotive sustainability.

Keywords: Sustainable Manufacturing Practices; Sustaining Lean Improvements; Sustainable Performance; Automotive Industry