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Comparative Analysis of Two Industries for Validating Green Manufacturing (GM) Framework: An Indian Scenario

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Green Manufacturing (GM) deals with manufacturing practices that reduces or eliminates the adverse environmental impact during any of its phases. It emphasizes the use of processes that do not contaminate the environment or hurt consumers, employees, or other stakeholders. This paper presents the comparative analysis of two Indian industries representing different sectors for validating GM framework. It also highlights the road map of the companies for achieving performance improvement through GM implementation and its impact on organisational performance. The case studies helps in evaluating the companies GM implementation and overall business performance. For this, a developed diagnostic instrument in the form of questionnaire was administered amongst employees in the companies respectively and their responses were analysed. In order to have a better understanding of the impact of GM implementation, the information about overall business performance was obtained over the last 3 years. The diagnostic instrument developed here may be used by manufacturing organisations to prioritise their management efforts to assess and implement GM.

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Acknowledgment

Authors are thankful to both the companies (company A and company B) for their positive responses as well as for sparing their time for carrying out the survey.

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  1. St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, 441108, Maharashtra, India

    Minhaj Ahemad Abdul Rehman

  2. Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, 441110, Maharashtra, India

    Rakesh Lakshmikumar Shrivastava

  3. G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, 440016, Maharashtra, India

    Rashmi Rakesh Shrivastava

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Rehman, M.A.A., Shrivastava, R.L. & Shrivastava, R.R. Comparative Analysis of Two Industries for Validating Green Manufacturing (GM) Framework: An Indian Scenario. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C 98, 203–218 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-016-0331-0

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