Author(s): Zahra Abd Mohammed
The challenges that have emerged in the recent years, such as the lack of the resources, affect the survival and continuity of the business, but the resources can be managed effectively through applying the leanness as a philosophy that leads the company, its projects and activities to a state of continuous improvement. Nowadays the economic, environmental, social, and technology challenges are getting more and more complex, which forces the industrial companies' management to work on adopting the lean manufacturing where it focuses on the activities that add a value by eliminating the waste in all company operations, and this consequently leads to reduce the use of the materials, the inventory, the machinery, the space and production time as well as improving the efficiency in order to obtain products that have a high quality and for achieving this step, the elements, the practices and tools of the lean manufacturing must be applied, which in turn lead to achieve the economic, environmental, social, and technology sustainability. The research aimed to develop an integrated conceptual model for the integration of the lean manufacturing and sustainability, because the previous studies did not provide an integrated model linking between the Lean Manufacturing and Sustainability and where it will achieve this by identifying the elements, the practices, and tools of the lean manufacturing that have an important and significant role in achieving the economic, environmental, social, and technology sustainability.