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Analysis of Barriers to the Establishment of Green-lean Six Sigma Using Bipolar Fuzzy Sets

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Seyed Sina Masoumi 1
Mohammad Hosein Asgharpour 2
Mehrzad Jamshidi Guilani 3
1 MSc, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Economics Management & Accounting, Yazd, Iran.
2 BSc, Department of Industrial Enggenering, East Faculty of Engineering, Guilan, Iran.
3 MSc, Department of Industrial Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran.
10.48301/kssa.2022.302414.1704
Abstract
Six Sigma is one of the operational concepts in project management. Due to the activity of industrial projects and the production of wastewater and waste in the environment, the use of a pure-green combined approach has become necessary. Six Sigma Lean-Green is associated with obstacles in practice; therefore, the present article aims to analyze the obstacles to the implementation of this approach in industrial projects. Accordingly, using the opinions of experts, the weight related to the classification of obstacles was obtained through Shannon entropy. Then, using bipolar fuzzy TOPSIS, the rank of obstacles extracted from the thematic literature was calculated. According to the calculations, the first three ranks of obstacles are "lack of knowledge about the philosophies of Six Sigma Green", "uncertainty of returning from the acceptance of Six Sigma Green" and "poor quality raw materials". Based on the results of this study, the managers of this type of projects can take necessary measures for effective management in order to implement the project with a pure green approach, in addition to reducing waste in the design and implementation of wastewater management systems, measures in line with international conventions and international standards and national work to protect the environment and social responsibility.
Keywords
Green-lean Six Sigma
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Bipolar Fuzzy
Construction and Production Projects
Subjects
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Karafan Journal
Volume 20, Issue 4 - Serial Number 65
Art and Architecture / Agriculture
Winter 2024
Pages 343-363

  • Receive Date 13 September 2021
  • Revise Date 29 January 2022
  • Accept Date 25 April 2022