Analyzing the Factors Enabling Green Lean Six Sigma Implementation in the Industry 4.0 Era

Green Lean Six Sigma has emerged in the Industry 4.0 era as a business strategy contributing to circular economy by adopting 3R concept, i.e., reduce, reuse, and recycle. Despite its broadly acknowledged capabilities manufacturing industry, practitioners continue be cautious about implementation, owing insufficient knowledge culture. Hence, there is need systematize existing regarding this green initiative also recognize key factors enabling implementation. In Malaysian context, have yet identified evaluated. This current study first of kind identify examine these create structural model conceptualize operationalize strategy. The implemented methodological approach includes two steps. Firstly, it performs systematic review leading studies on topic, which are rather scarce context. second step entails principal component factor analysis using varimax rotation finalize findings. theoretical empirical results revealed with five interconnected factors, including twenty-seven enablers, that can used narrow gap understudied