SUSTAINABILITY: A NEW MANUFACTURING PARADIGM

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran Qureshi ◽  
Amran Md. Rasli ◽  
Ahmad Jusoh ◽  
Tan Owee Kowang
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Process Manufacturing ◽  
Social Environmental

Recently, many industries adopted lean manufacturing philosophy to improve efficiency through reducing waste for maximization of profit. Most of the manufacturers have benefited the implementation of lean manufacturing through process effectiveness. However, despite of all its effectiveness in the production process, manufacturing industry is facing a real challenge instigated by the stakeholders (i.e. Customers, policy makers, regulatory authorities and society). Stakeholders are consistently pressurizing manufacturers to integrate the social and environmental factor within their production process to protect society and the environment from the negative effects of the manufacturing process, as a result manufacturing process experience continuous adaptation. This adaptation caused technological and procedural shifts, this significantly alter the fundamental manufacturing concepts. Current study provide the basic alterations in the fundamental principles of the green manufacturing paradigm, this adaptation ultimately leads to the new manufacturing paradigm of Sustainable manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing is a broader concept of manufacturing focused on the integration of social, environmental and economic factors in manufacturing procedures. 

scholarly journals Towards Developing a Green Manufacturing Environment: What is Ghana doing?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gyasi-Mensah ◽  
Xuhua Hu
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Manufacturing Environment ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
To Come ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
The Relationship

Developed nations embarked on massive industrialization through manufacturing in order to reap the benefits that accompany this developmental strategy. Nations of the developing world are also adopting similar strategies to make the most of their natural resources. Realizing the negative effects of manufacturing on the environment and human lives, nations have began upgrading their manufacturing methods through the adoption of eco-friendly processes. This article intends to throw light on what the developing nation of Ghana has been doing to mitigate the effects of conventional methods of manufacturing on the environment and on human lives. The article presents the relationship between manufacturing and the environment within which manufacturing take place. It also presents some environmental challenges encountered in manufacturing sector in Ghana, as well as steps that are taken to minimize and/or prevent them. The article again presents efforts that have been taken towards integrating green practices in the manufacturing industry in Ghana, through the collaboration between the country and other international stakeholders. The literature on what Ghana is doing to create green manufacturing environment lacks empirical approach to come to a verified conclusion, hence the need to carry out future studies which is empirically based. Other gaps are also presented in the article, and what can be done to fill these gaps is also presented.

Streamlined from the Start

2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (03) ◽  
pp. 30-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Miller ◽  
James Richmond ◽  
Aron Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Production System ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Toyota Production System ◽  
Lean Product Development ◽  
Innovative Products

This article discusses the importance of lean product development in the manufacturing industry. Lean manufacturing is a concept developed by Toyota more than 30 years ago. It was motivated by the desire to build better and more innovative products with lower costs. The result was the evolution of what is commonly known as the Toyota production system. This system increases efficiency and reduces waste in each area of the production process by eliminating unnecessary efforts and empowering all levels of the workforce. Lean product development is based on the theory of lean manufacturing. The processes focus on simplicity and effectiveness. Lean product development allows for communication between multi-departmental teams, simplifying and keeping the development process moving forward. Using lean product development to manage projects puts accountability on the project owners.

High-Speed Measurement of Complex Shaped Parts at Elevated Temperature by Laser Triangulation

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 558-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Schöch ◽  
◽  
Alessandro Salvadori ◽  
Ivo Germann ◽  
Silvano Balemi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperature ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Laser Triangulation ◽  
Production Chain

The increasing quality expectations and the global competition push manufacturing industry to adopt strategies of lean manufacturing and precision engineering. In order to reach these aims it is necessary that the measuring process is integrated in the production chain to provide timely feedback for process control. Nowadays, however, forged products are typically measured after the cool-down process, which can take several hours. The advantages obtainable if forgings would be measured online are clear: deviations in the production process would be recognized earlier and the production process could be promptly adjusted. On-line measurement capabilities have the potential to reduce overall production costs and consequently are of interest to many forging industries, including those producing complex products such as turbine blades. Under these circumstances, the HOTGAUGE project was initiated: an international EUROSTARS project with the goal to develop a measuring system, capable of measuring freeform shaped parts at elevated temperature (approx. 800°C) directly after the forging step. The output of the measuring system is a 3D model of the hot part including temperature information. The 3D coordinate measuring system is composed by two main subsystems: a 2D laser-triangulation system capable to scan a complete section of the part, and a moving platform, which moves the part through the measuring plane. The architecture and the components of the measurement system as well as measurement results are presented in this paper.

The Link between Lean and Green Manufacturing - A Way to Reach Sustainable Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 656 ◽  
pp. 534-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Iuliana Tilina ◽  
Miron Zapciu ◽  
Vasile Bendic
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Waste Minimization ◽  
Lean And Green

Today, manufacturing products in a sustainable way is increasingly becoming essential in the eyes of investors, authorities and customers. Failure leads to fines, penalties, and customers choosing to go to the competition. Success, on the other hand, can save money, helps build a reputation, attracts investment, spurs innovation, secures loyal customers and brings in repeat business. Taking into account the sustainable manufacturing is not just longer a caprice for the business.During the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century two types of manufacturing systems that emphasize waste minimization have emerged: Lean and Green manufacturing. Despite the importance of Green manufacturing to the environmental problem, many companies are still skeptical about the business benefits. In the same time, however, a good many of them see the business benefits of Lean manufacturing. Several research efforts summarized in the literature review indicate how both systems share many of the same best practices to reduce their respective wastes. Yet, these two systems tend to operate independently.The aim of this research is to explore and to determine how the Lean manufacturing can include Green manufacturing system components in their overall strategy to reduce waste.

Research of Discrete Manufacturing Industry Production Control System Based on RFID Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 1493-1496
Author(s):  
Xiang Qian Ding ◽  
Wei Dong Zhang ◽  
Rui Chun Hou
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Process Control ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Production Control ◽  
Process Control System ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Discrete Manufacturing

In view of the current discrete manufacturing workshop production process control problem of poor real-time performance, reliability, this paper proposes a discrete manufacture based on rfid technology workshop production process control system solutions. For discrete manufacturing enterprise workshop layer of the production process control system emphasizes the manufacturing process of real-time data acquisition, validity and enforceability of the production plan. Developed a discrete manufacturing process control system based on RFID, provides the foundation for just-in-time production of discrete manufacturing.

Green Lean Practices towards Increasing Operation Value of Manufacturing Company

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nur Aizat Ahmad ◽  
◽  
Md Fauzi Ahmad ◽  
Norhadilah Abdul Hamid ◽  
Yunos Ngadiman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Lean Practices ◽  
Time Operation ◽  
Manufacturing Company

Nowadays, manufacturing industries are rapidly developing. However the constraints faced by today's producers are how to produce their products quickly through low costs while at the same time, the reduction of waste disposal in the environment. The high waste of time in the manufacturing industry is often attributed to the wastage that occurred in the company’s operations. Lean manufacturing is linked for improving the standard working. It is one of the production strategies that drive the industry towards a more efficient production of goods and services. Meanwhile, green manufacturing has been adopted as a requirement to achieve a minimal negative impact on the environment. The green lean is a concept to make sure system more efficient, reduce unwanted product releases and minimize the environmental impact. So, the main objective of this research is to reduce cycle time in manufacturing company by adopting green lean elements. This research focuses on furniture manufacturing and conducted a structural interview question, observation and time study method. To refine those time operation problems, the company had implemented the new green lean practices into the operation department. The results after implement these methods totally show an improved progress. The paper would help the manufacturer to organize and improve their company performance. In conclusion, this research is about to identify and reduce the time waste to improve the operation value of the manufacturing company while at the same time it would reduce the environmental impact in future.

Environmental Sustainability Evaluation for an Automobile Manufacturing Industry Using Multi-Grade Fuzzy Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 123-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Nallusamy ◽  
M. Ganesan ◽  
K. Balakannan ◽  
C. Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Fuzzy Approach ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Automobile Manufacturing ◽  
Environmental Sustainability Index

In recent days of competitive world industries are getting upward pressure to keep environment green to go for sustainable manufacturing with green manufacturing. Sustainable methods are expected to provide Triple Bottom Line benefits. To improve the performance of environmental conditions, sustainability of environmental desires to be reviewed. Multi grade fuzzy approach is used to get an effectual calculation. Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) will be calculated and examined for enhancement. An automobile manufacturing industry is being exemplified for this study. The final calculated value of ESI of the manufacturing industry is 6.1 and is in the accepted level of 6 to 8, which shows the industry is Strongly Environmental Sustainable for improving the image of company and production efficiency.

Evaluation and Identification of Lean-Green Resourced Person (LGRP) for Integrating and Implementing Lean and Green Practices in a Manufacturing Industry

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balaji Kuppusamy ◽  
Senthil Kumar Velukkudi Santhanam ◽  
Mohan Bangaru ◽  
Viswanathan Doraiswamy
Keyword(s):  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Lean And Green ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Assessment Performance

The current manufacturing sector has the objective of maximizing profit by minimizing waste, proper utilization of men, machine and materials. Apart from this, the focus has been on implementing green manufacturing practices in operations. The lean -green topic is an emerging and the new one in the present scenario. The main aim of the green practices is to improve operational activities as well as environmental efficiency. Green practices are concerned with the environmental, social and economic impacts over any organization. Lean manufacturing has been coined by nine wastes. These wastes have an impact on green practices, leading to generation of green wastes. Some of the green waste was excessive resource usage, power usage, pollution, improper health and safety. Lean and green are concurrent manufacturing practices focusing on wastes. The present industrial scenario has been looking into implementing these practices in their operations. A few practices relating to lean-green practices, are integration of lean -green concepts, organization performance analysis, functions, assessment performance and empirical study etc. One of the primary activity of lean-green strategies is showing respect to the workforce. Human factor will be considered as one the main pillars in the lean-green practices. In this research paper a model has been proposed for identification of a Lean-Green Resourced Person (LGRP) for integrating and implementing lean and green practices in a manufacturing industry. Identification of LGRP will help the organization in implementing and executing lean-green strategies into their operations. A multicriteria decision making method has been used for finding the LGRP in the industry. The identification will result in reductions in time consumption during implementation, guiding the industry in a proper way for implementing and integrating the lean-green techniques.

Simulation and Analysis for Sustainability in Manufacturing Processes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Muroyama ◽  
Mahesh Mani ◽  
Kevin Lyons ◽  
Bjorn Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Injection Molding ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Golf Ball ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Des Model

“Sustainability” has become a ubiquitous term in almost every field, especially in engineering design and manufacturing. Recently, an increased awareness of environmental problems and resource depletion has led to an emphasis on environmentally friendly practices. This is especially true in the manufacturing industry where energy consumption and the amount of waste generated can be high. This requires proactive tools to be developed to carefully analyze the cause-effect of current manufacturing practices and to investigate alternative practices. One such approach to sustainable manufacturing is the combined use of Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to analyze the utilization and processing of manufacturing resources in a factory setting. On an economic aspect such method can significantly reduce the financial and environmental costs by evaluating the system performance before its construction or use. This project considers what-if scenarios in a simplified golf ball factory, using as close to real-world data as possible, to demonstrate DES and LCA’s ability to facilitate decision-making and optimize the manufacturing process. Plastic injection molding, an energy-intensive step in the golf ball manufacturing process, is the focus of the DES model. AutoMod, a 3-D modeling software, was used to build the DES model and AutoStat was used to run the trials and analyze the data. By varying the input parameters such as type and number of injection molding machines and material used, the simulation model can output data indicating the most productive and energy efficient methods. On a more detailed level, the simulations can provide valuable information on bottlenecks or imbalances in the system. Correcting these can allow the factory to be both “greener” and more cost-effective.

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