The increasing consumption patterns in emerging economies like India and China with half the world population has increased the environmental concerns. E-waste in these countries is rapidly increasing and monitor is one ...

Industry 4.0 has enabled technological integration of cyber physical systems and internet based communication in manufacturing value creation processes. As of now, many people use it as a collective term for advanced ...

Machine tools consume enormous amount of energy during machining, build-up to machining, post machining and idling condition to drive motors and auxiliary equipments in the manufacturing system. Reduction of energy consumption ...

The paper aims at improving production performance of an automated production line by lean manufacturing implementation. The production performance has been improved in an Indian industry by identifying and eliminating ...

The energy efficiency is important evaluation criterion for new investment in machinery and equipment in addition to the classical parameters accuracy, performance, cost and reliability. Even the users in the automotive ...

The growing concern for sustainability has forced the researchers and managers to incorporate the environmental and social factors along with the economical factors in the design of supply chains. This paper presents the ...

The purpose of this paper is to review various themes of leanness, leanness assessment approaches, leanness assessment areas, and their evolution by a systematic literature review (SLR).

Ever increasing customer choices, environmental concerns and competitiveness among manufacturers across the globe has engaged the industry to embrace newer manufacturing strategies. Predominantly, there are three dimensions ...

Green Manufacturing Systems (GMS) has attracted the attention of organizations all over the world. There is a general challenge offered to the field of engineering economics by the introduction of green manufacturing systems ...

Sustainability is an important concept for twenty first century organizations and one approach for managing corporate sustainability is through the introduction of reverse logistics (RL). But there are many barriers to the ...