Track: Lean

Abstract

Currently, Lean Manufacturing (LM) tools are crucial for economic, environmental, and social sustainability. This article reports a bibliometric analysis of LM applications in industry and their impact on the social, economic, and environmental sustainability they have obtained. The PRISMA methodology is used to identify 241 articles that are analyzed using the VOSviewer® software. From the analysis, the main authors who investigate the topic and the journal that publishes them, the countries in which it is published the most, the collaboration networks of the researchers, the main keywords, documents, and most-cited journals are identified. The results indicate that the countries India, the UK, and the USA are the ones that publish the most on these issues and that the UK and the USA have been pioneers in dealing with sustainability and LM issues.