Critical Success Factors for Implementation of Lean and Green in Medium Scale Manufacturing Industries

Abstract:

Lean manufacturing is a strategic tool, which is used to cut down waste and to improve the efficiency of an organization and helps the organization to sustain in the competitive environment. Implementation of green systems in organization results in reduce energy consumption, waste generation, and hazardous materials used while also building the companies’ images as socially responsible organizations. Several research efforts discussed in the literature indicate that lean companies show significant environmental improvements by being more resource and energy efficient. Lean and green systems are associated with waste reduction techniques. In foreign, many industries have started implementing these concepts and they are getting good results. In India, companies are facing problems in implementing lean and green concept. This paper investigates critical success factors for lean and green system implementation in Indian medium scale manufacturing industries. The factors are grouped into different levels by Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM)

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 592-594)
• Pages: 2588-2595
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.592-594.2588
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: S. Gunasekharan*, Elangovan D., P. Parthiban
• Keywords: Green Manufacturing, ISM, Lean Manufacturing

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