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Ideas and programs in Designing Eco-friendly Manufacturing Practices

Aman Thakur

Abstract


The ability of a company to accommodate to shifts in its business environment is essential to its existence. The shifts in customer tastes and alterations in governmental policy are frequently reflected in the new goods and technologies introduced and employed by rival companies. These elements frequently highlight the necessity for a business to have excellence in manufacturing, whose concept and application began to take shape in the 1970s as a result of the heightened worldwide competitiveness and quickening of technical progress. Under the umbrella of world-class manufacturing techniques, new strategies like customer focus, complete quality monitoring, just-in-time manufacturing, constant improvement, lean management, participative management, as well as other support functions were made in order to achieve success in the project. The fundamental ideas behind the world-class industrial production (WCM) model as well as fundamental principle are presented in this paper. Companies from Japan, Germany, the United States, and other nations have emerged to monopolise on a worldwide scale with their slightly elevated product offerings that keep going to achieve customer satisfaction in their respective product categories. As evidenced by the rise in per capita disposable income and consumption amounts in emerging and developed nations over the past few decades, automakers have achieved excellence in manufacturing. However, in the last 10-15 years, sustainability concerns have prompted new thinking about integrating environmental management programs into manufacturers' production technologies and value chains. In order to avoid harming our environmentalist, organisations may need to redesign their internal and external strategies and operations. This essay focuses on environmentally friendly manufacturing, addressing ecological and social issues, and pursuing green design techniques to create goods, technology, and industrial processes that will have a smaller adverse impact on the environment.


Keywords


: world class manufacturing technique, total productive maintenance, Total Quality Control, Total Industrial Engineering, Just in Time.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijpe.v8i1.1457

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