Sustainable Manufacturing System and its Importance: A Brief Review

Abstract

Most of the studies published on the performance evaluation of manufacturing systems is in economic context. But in recent years this focus is shifted from economic factors to environmental factors in the performance evaluation of any manufacturing system. This paper is to enlighten the issues related to the implementation and its importance for the adaptation of full scale sustainable manufacturing system. In reference to the studies available at the national and international level every activity in a manufacturing unit needs some amount of energy, that energy cannot be produced with zero CO₂ emission in conventional energy production systems. Consequently, this CO₂ emission damages the environment by one way or other. The review of the recent researches shows the use of alternative energy sources like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy etc. have a positive impact on the environment as well as on product economy. Some researchers worked over the waste reduction to achieve the sustainability. It is also reported in most of the studies that these non conventional energy resources are available in abundance with no environmental damage. It is also evident from the present review that the use of these energies in the manufacturing systems at full scale is not an easy task.

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