Sandeep Handa

Tilak Raj

Sandeep Grover

Abstract

The challenges of mitigating the adverse effects manufacturing on environment, coupled with a need for optimum utilization of resources and increasing complexities in waste management are important factors which are motivating businesses to espouse green manufacturing. Alignment of the environmental considerations with the manufacturing activities in an organization is at the essence of Green Manufacturing. The performance of green manufacturing is evaluated using operational, environmental, financial and social criteria. There are various factors which act as pivots for promoting a transition towards green manufacturing are identified as 'critical'. This study uses Fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method to filter the uncertainties and ambiguity in linguistic terms and prioritizes the critical success factors for adoption of green manufacturing. This study offers managerial insights to effectively evaluate the interdependencies between these critical success factors. The results obtained indicate that factors viz., 'adoption of eco-innovations' and 'reverse logistics' are placed at priority Level of I and II. This study will help businesses concentrate on those factors that have maximum influence on implementing green manufacturing.

Keywords- Green manufacturing, Critical success factors, Fuzzy TOPSIS