Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan - Lean and Green Manufacturing: Towards Eco-Efficiency and Business Performance

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In recent years, many companies have established a fundamental goal to minimize the environmental impact while maintaining high quality and service for all business processes and products. This growing concern for environmental issues prompts organizations to incorporate greening initiatives into their supply chain operations. The preliminary step in this direction is to identify the environmental concerns and take appropriate measures to reduce them. Green manufacturing is part of a continuous improvement strategy to help manufacturers improve their productivity, profitability, and competitiveness.

Recently, a few organizations approaching toward green manufacturing have tried to use it as a marketing tool to attain an edge over their competitors. Only a few organizations show real concerns over adopting green manufacturing practices due to their associated economic investments. The primary aim of greening manufacturing is to coordinate the production activities within the supply chain to reduce waste and maximize the use of clean technology to meet the organizations needs at the least cost to the environment. Thus, manufacturing organizations needs to streamline their operations by eliminating wastes and non-value-added activities. Lean principles involve a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste and non-value-added activities through continuous improvement, which is also the key to enhance environmental performance. The manufacturers are starting to realize that the mission to become greener takes them right back to the lean manufacturing approach.

The key to achieving these challenges is by changing the companys decision-making processes to incorporate environmental aspects, be in the form of green or lean SC operations, which will affect the operations overall environmental cost. Reducing the raw materials and inventory helps not only the environment but also your bottom line. Additionally, developing more sustainable practices will help you comply with local, federal, and global environmental initiatives and might even earn you some excellent incentives from your state or local government. And last but not least, there is the benefit of working toward a greener future by reducing pollutants and other forms of waste that harm our planet. The purpose of these supply chain initiatives is to reduce both costs and wastes. Conventional decision-making approaches commonly overlook or inadequately represent the costs and benefits of departments outside the decision-makers area. These developments led to few unanswered questions like how to integrate the tools and the complications in correlating the two paradigms that are still not answered. Further, the analytical and scientific methods to support practitioners were not explicitly discussed in the past.

This book is planned to provide a stage-by-stage integration of lean and green manufacturing paradigms to achieve environmental and economic benefits. The books various chapters are expected to support the practicing managers during the implementation of integrated lean and green manufacturing paradigms. The book chapters will be organized into three parts: (1) conceptualizing integrated lean and green manufacturing paradigms; (2) tools and techniques for integrated lean and green paradigms, and (3) case studies demonstrating the implementation of integrating lean-green paradigms.