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IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN MANUFACTURING IN INDUSTRY A CASE STUDY

Swapnil V. Ghinmine1, Dilip I. Sangotra2
1

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering DMIETR Wardha, Maharashtra India

2
Associates Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering YCCE Nagpur, Maharashtra India

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that helps to implement the green manufacturing in the industry. The CO2 emission
and the waste that is generated from the industry is one of the main factor for the environmental degradation which leads to
global warming and acid rain. Government rules and regulation are the key important factors that helps achieve the
environmental, economic and intangible performance. Data regarding the survey was collected and analyzed by the mean score.
Implementation of these factors in the industry helps achieve economic growth at national and international level.

Keywords: Green design, training and employee involvement, green distribution, green manufacturing
--------------------------------------------------------------------***-----------------------------------------------------------------1. INTRODUCTION
Manufacturing plays an important role or strategic role in an
organization especially to build competitive advantage and
improve the performance of the manufacturing firm. With
the rapid changes in the technologies, customers needs and
globalizations manufacturing is itself is transforming and
evolving. In early 19th century the production system
adopted is mainly the mass production system without
giving much stress on the green manufacturing. In 1970s the
concept adopted is the flexible manufacturing system. As
the progress is made in the manufacturing system the
surrounding environment starts facing the problems of
pollutions which leads to environmental degradations. The
major challenge to the government was to protect the
environment from these pollutions. So in 20th century the
concept of Green Manufacturing was evolved. The term
green manufacturing can be looked in two ways: the
manufacturing of green products, particularly those used
in renewable energy systems and clean technology
equipment of all kinds, and the greening of manufacturing
reducing pollution and waste by minimizing natural
resource use, recycling and reusing what was considered
waste, and reducing emissions.

2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Various case studies has been carried out by different
authors on green manufacturing. Shang et al. (2010) [4]
conducted a case study in which he has observed six
different parameters of green supply chain management i.e
eco design, green manufacturing and packaging,
environmental participation, green marketing, stock and
suppliers which helps to achieve the environmental
performance. Lamming and Hampson (1996) [5] mainly
focused on the concept of environmentally sound
management and linked them to the supply chain
management
system
establishing
environmental
procurement policy , collaborative supply strategies, vendor

assessment and working with the suppliers to enable

improvements. Handfield et al. (2002) [3] has made a multi
attribute decision making model for measurement of the
environmental performance. Walton et al. (1998) [9] has
observed several many ways to increase the impact of
procurement on green manufacturing. Quinghu Zhu et al
(2008) [6] has identified different drivers such as Green
Procurement, Internal Environmental Management, Eco
Design, Customer Cooperation, and Investment Recovery
which helps in the implementation of green supply chain
management.

2.1 Objective of the Study

Objective of the study is to look after the factors or drivers
and implementation of green manufacturing.

2.2 Green Manufacturing

Green manufacturing is a system that integrates product and
process design issues with a issues of manufacturing ,
planning and control in such a manner to identify , quantify ,
assess and manage the flow of environmental waste with the
goal of reducing and ultimately reducing environmental
impact while also trying to maximize the resource
efficiency.

3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology consists of development of
competitive strategies and benchmarking questionnaire
about green. Manufacturing. These questionnaires were
discussed with the industrial experts who believe to have the
fair knowledge about the green practices that were followed
in the industries. Performance of each of these strategies
will depends upon the mean aggregate score. The ratings of
these factors were marked on five point scale (1-good, 2average, 3-better, 4- excellent, 5- best) the extent to which
they perceived their companies implementing each of the
dimensions of green concept practices. These factors were

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analyzed on the basis of the mean score. These factors helps

in the implementation of the green manufacturing and
enabling organizations to evaluate their strength and
weakness in the course of implementing these practices.

4.

IMPLEMENTATION

OF

GREEN

MANUFACTURING PROCESS
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
Explaining how green considerations impact
on
design
decisions
relating
to
manufacturing processes and products

Analyzing a technological
determine its suitability
manufacture

Sr.No
1

outcome to
for green

Making design changes as required for the

technological outcome guided by good
design judgment criteria
Establishing
specifications,
including
tolerances, required of the outcome that is to
be manufactured within the constraints and
opportunities of the manufacturing location

Selecting a green manufacturing process and

quality control procedures to enable units to
meet the established specifications and
tolerances

8
9

Sr.No
1

5. COMPRATIVE ANALYSIS OF FACTORS

5.1 Top Management Commitment (Mean Score

1.570)
Sr.No
1

2
3

Top
Management
Commitment
Focus
on
the
commitment
and
responsibilities
of
Green Manufacturing
Monitors the process
of GSCM
It mainly supports the
Green practices over
long budget

1.426

1.328

Green purchasing
Purchasing
of
the
product and services
that has no adverse
effect
on
the
surrounding
It
reduces
overall
energy, cost and weight
of the product
It
improves
the
environmental
performance of the
organization
Collect information on
environmental product
and suppliers
It improves supplier
manufacturer
relationship

Mean Score
1.540

1.274

1.384

1.531

1.529

5.3 Environmental Policy (Mean Score 1.726)

Organizing
resources
and
ensuring
procedures are carried out accurately in
keeping with relevant codes of practice
Monitoring the manufacturing process and
refining as required
Evaluating the success of the manufacturing
process in meeting green considerations
Justifying the level of success the
manufacturing process has attained in
meeting green considerations

It makes changes in
current manufacturing
process to implement
Green Practices
It increases the profit
of the organization

5.2 Green Purchasing (Mean Score 1.526)

Sr.No
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Mean Score
1.238
3
1.174
1.539
4

Environmental Policy
To
protect
and
conserve
critical
ecological systems and
resources, and
invaluable natural and
man-made
heritage,
which are essential for
life
support,
livelihoods, economic
growth,
and
a
broad
conception of human
well-being
To ensure judicious
use of environmental
resources to meet the
needs and
aspirations of the
present and future
generations
To
integrate
environmental
concerns into policies,
plans, programs, and
projects for economic
and
social
development.
To ensure efficient use

Mean Score
1.326

1.579

1.259

1.423

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of
environmental
resources in the sense
of reduction
in their use per unit of
economic output, to
minimize adverse
environmental impacts

cost, improve
production
efficiency,
reduce
environmental
impacts with
low or no
waste
and
pollution

5.4 Green Design (Mean Score 1.448)

Sr.No
1

Green Design
Design
of
product whose
composition and
design
should
have minimum
negative impact
on
the
environment
It
involves
recycling, reuse,
reduce,
remanufacturing,
disassembly
It mainly focus
on the customer
requirement
while design the
product

Mean Score
1.446

Sr.No
1

Green
Manufacturing
It
involves
class
of
technologies
that
use
cleaner fuels
for generating
Power.
Examples
include
biomass,
hydro power,
Integrated Gas
Combined
Cycle (IGCC),
etc
use of Green
production
methods and
technologies in
traditional
Industries such
as iron and
steel, cement,
refining,
chemicals.
It helps in low
raw material

5.6 Green Distribution (Mean Score 1.440)

Sr.no
1

1.729
2

1.319

5.5 Green Manufacturing (Mean Score 1.424)

Mean Score

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Green
Distribution
It
includes
transportation
of good with
minimum
environmental
impact.
Transportation
system should
be
fuel
efficient
Environmental
friendly
vehicle
like
solar vehicle
should be used

Mean Score
1.221

1.192

1.434

5.7 Training and Employee Involvement (Mean

Score 1.420)

1.362

Sr.No

3
1.578

1.423

Training
and
employee
involvement
Workers
from
different
departments
should
come
together
for
brainstorming
session
Workers should
do the work at
there allocated
place
Employee
should
be
rewarded
for
there innovative
ideas,
involvement in
decision
Involvement in
decision making
process
for
implementing
green concept

Mean Score

1.998

1.885

1.297

1.192

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5.8 Customer Awareness Programme (Mean Score

1.340)
Sr.no

Customer
Awareness
Programs
General
meetings
should
be
conducted for
GSCM
Feedback on
GSCM
,
products
should be done
Customer
requirements
survey should
be done.

Mean Score

1.429

1.238

1.174

6. ANALYSIS OF FACTORS
The present analysis shows that the most important factor is
environmental policy which has the mean score of 1.726
followed by top management commitment (1.570) , Green
purchasing (1.526) , Green design (1.448) , Green
distribution (1.440) , Green manufacturing (1.424) ,
Training and Employee involvement (1.420) , Customer
awareness program (1.340) .

7. CONCLUSION
The purpose of the study is to identify the Green
manufacturing factors and its sub factors and its relationship
with the organizational performance which include
environmental performance, competitive advantage, and
economic performance. The results shows that the industry
with large manufacturing capacity can heavily invest on the
green supply chain management than the industry with small
manufacturing capacity. This is due to the larger firm has
more investment capacity on green concept than the smaller
firm. Thus it is concluded that to protect the environment
and the earth appropriate methodology should be adopted by
the industries to minimize the detrimental effect on the
earth.

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