THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUSTAINING LEAN IMPROVEMENTS AND SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA

摘要

This paper shows a relationship between sustaining lean improvements and sustainable performance is at the roots of environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) sustainability via proposed model to carry out an empirical research in Malaysian automotive industry. For this decade, automotive manufacturing companies are dealing with the sustainability problems in input materials, manufacturing processes, and waste disposal, among others. Hence, this paper attempts to gain a picture of the current theme of emphasis on sustaining lean improvements indicators among the automotive manufacturing companies in Malaysia and also on sustainable performance. In brief, more extensive research and collaboration is needed to increase understanding of sustaining lean improvements in manufacturing area and applications of sustainable.