Abstract
A number of current manufacturing sectors are striving hard to introduce innovative long-term strategies into their operations. As a result, many scholarly studies have found it fruitful to investigate advanced manufacturing strategies such as agile, computer-integrated, and cellular manufacturing. Through the example of downstream cases, manufacturing sectors have learned that financial benefits garnered through automated technologies cannot be counted on as a sole measure to ensure their success in today’s competitive and fluctuating marketplaces. The objective of this study is to integrate those advanced techniques with sustainable operations, to promote advanced sustainable manufacturing so those manufacturing sectors can thrive even in uncertain markets. To establish this connection, this study analyzes the drivers of advanced sustainable manufacturing through a proposed framework validated through a case study in India. Common drivers are collected from the literature, calibrated with opinions from experts, and analyzed through an analytical hierarchy process (AHP), which is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach. This study reveals that quality is the primary driver that pressures manufacturing sectors to adopt advanced sustainable manufacturing. Manufacturers can easily note the top ranked driver and adopt it to soundly implement advanced sustainable manufacturing. In addition, some key future scopes are explored along with possible recommendations for effective implementation of advanced sustainable manufacturing systems.
Highlights
Manufacturing is one of the world’s most dynamic industries both in developed and developing nations
This section presented the results obtained from the study; this research aims to analyze the drivers of advanced sustainable manufacturing systems with the assistance of analytical hierarchy process (AHP). 15 drivers, collected from literature support and from field experts, are further analyzed with the help of the case industry’s managers
Financial benefit (D3) captures second place with the weights of 0.1684, and the least driver of advanced sustainable manufacturing is reported as Market capabilities (D2)
Summary
Manufacturing is one of the world’s most dynamic industries both in developed and developing nations. Because of manufacturing’s broad scope, it attracts a multitude of developments and innovations, including advanced technologies that seek to add a benefit or to improve a process. According to a report published by Infosys [5], whereas 85% of advanced manufacturing techniques receive global acceptance, only 15% of organizations end up adopting those advanced processes. The Global Manufacturing Outlook report [6] finds that 48% of respondents vote to adopt new manufacturing technologies as efficient drivers for new growth and innovation in manufacturing sectors. With these considerations, this study chooses advanced manufacturing as a core of the research, in order to identify innovations related to sustainability
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