Green manufacturing: A MCDM approach

Abstract

Green manufacturing activities form the basis for making green and environmentally friendly goods. In particular, industrial companies face several challenges in adopting and enforcing renewable manufacturing practices through SMEs. Green technology is the regeneration of production processes and the creation within the industrial sector of environmentally friendly operations. Environmental development includes three methods of changing manufacturing activities: utilizing green energy, producing and marketing renewable goods and, using green technologies in business operations. A series of research has been conducted in this direction of green manufacturing and several factors that affect the manufacturing process are suggested by researchers, but how and in which sequence and order these factors are required to be implemented by manufacturing organisations is missing in available studies. This research is therefore unique in this direction to identify the factors that influence green manufacturing and suggest the order of sequence to be followed by manufacturing organisation to establish themselves as green manufacturing organisation and in-return they will be capable of producing green and eco-friendly products. Using the expert opinion, eleven factors were extracted and the DEMATEL approach is used to classify and categorize eleven drivers into cause effect group.