Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing investigations for combining lean, operational excellence, and sustainability. Research papers will address the many-sided phenomena of integrating management systems, tools, and technologies, aimed at the following:

• enabling a higher degree of convergence between sustainability and other manufacturing performances, namely cost, quality, time, and flexibility
• reducing the environmental waste generated by manufacturing and supply chain activities
• improving environmental and social performance through the re-design and/or reengineering of the production system
• leveraging up-to-date technologies to pursue sustainability targets
• shaping theoretical new models for operational excellence

Covered topics include operations and sustainability strategies, lean implementations for sustainability in operational processes and supply chain, product/service design, lean agile and sustainability, lean and Six Sigma systems integrated with sustainability, lean, sustainability and the use of new smart digital technologies, operational excellence and CSR performance measurement systems, among others.

We therefore welcome a wide range of papers, including theoretical and practical research, based, in any case, on a sound methodology.

Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure, with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Dr. Andrea Chiarini
Dr. Valeria Belvedere
Prof. Dr. Alberto Grando
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.