A Case Study of Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Nordin, Norani; Ashari, Hasbullah; Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal

doi:10.12720/joams.2.1.12-16

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“…Sustainable manufacturing practices have been defined mostly from an environmental perspective, aiming at minimizing the impacts of manufacturing operations on the environment while optimizing the production efficiency of the company (Nordin et al, 2014). Thus, in this paper sustainable manufacturing practices is understood as the actions, initiatives and techniques that positively affect the environmental, social or economic performance of a firm; helping to control or mitigate the impacts of the firm's operations in the triple bottom line.…”

Section: Sustainable Manufacturing Practicesmentioning

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Conceptual sustainable production principles in practice: Do they reflect what companies do?

Alayón

Säfsten

Johansson

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

125

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A common understanding of sustainable production principles and the identification of sustainable manufacturing practices among practitioners are key starting points in studying how manufacturers are making their operations more sustainable. However, there is a lack of insight in the literature connecting conceptual sustainable production principles, and the practices reflecting these principles. Using semi-structured interviews founded on the sustainable production principles posed by the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, this paper presents an outlook of how companies in different industries carry out manufacturing practices related to the sustainability production principles. Results showed that the majority of sustainable manufacturing practices remain strongly centered on the environmental dimension of sustainability, with the greatest number of practices emanating from principles concerning energy and material conservation, and waste management. Similarly, reactive sustainable manufacturing practices prevailed over proactive sustainable manufacturing practices, as most of the practices aimed to comply with regulatory and market pressures. Quality and environmental management systems were acknowledged as important tools for putting sustainable production principles into practice; while Swedish environmental and social regulations were found to drive sustainable manufacturing practices. This study connects sustainable production principles with sustainable manufacturing practices and opens the way for further studies on a global or sector-specific scale.Job satisfaction assessment Performance appraisal ISO 9001 supporting training and competence Key performance indicators 9. The communities around workplaces are respected and enhanced economically, socially, culturally and physically.

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Section: Sustainable Manufacturing Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual sustainable production principles in practice: Do they reflect what companies do?

Alayón

Säfsten

Johansson

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

125

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“…Sustainable manufacturing practices have been defined mostly from an environmental perspective, aiming at minimizing the impacts of manufacturing operations on the environment while optimizing the production efficiency of the company (Nordin et al, 2014). The most common environmental sustainability practices used among large companies are eco-design, renewable energy usage, energy and material optimization, recycling, product life cycle and end of life-cycle management, and waste minimization (Hurreeram et al, 2014).…”

Section: Sustainable Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Sustainable Production Practices Implemented by Car Manufacturers

Hąbek

Villahoz

2018

Multidisciplinary Aspects of Production Engineering

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Companies are increasingly implementing sustainable solutions as they face a growing sustainability demands from different stakeholders. The question is whether car manufacturers adhered to sustainable production principles and at what level they are doing it in practice. The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (LCSP) is used as a model to analyse the main aspects of sustainable production and assess the companies in the automotive sector in European Union. The data was collected from the Corporate Social Responsibility/ Sustainability reports of the individual car manufacturers found in the online data base of Global Reporting Initiative. Empirical evidence shows the adherence of these companies to the LCSP sustainable production principles. All the studied companies seem to be conscious of the significance of sustainability for the automotive industry. Although most of the sustainable production practices are focused on the environmental dimension of sustainability, employee and social aspects are not ignored in the reports.

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“…Vinodh and Joy (2012) • SMPs emphasize to minimize the manufacturing operations in order to optimize production efficiency of firms. Nordin et al (2014) This strategic viewpoint has adopted in automotive industry (Humphrey 2003;Olugu and Wong 2012). Most of the previous articles argued that SCM provides a strategic link between supply chain relationship quality and cooperative strategy (Power and Sohal 2001;Su et al 2008), supply chain integration and customer delivery performance (Boon-itt and Wong 2011); product quality and business performance (Agus 2011), and information manufacturing sharing and supply chain performance.…”

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Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

Habidin¹,

Zubir²,

Fuzi³

et al. 2015

J Glob Entrepr Res

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Sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) have received enormous attention in current years as an effective solution to support the continuous growth and expansion of the automotive manufacturing industry. This reported study was conducted to examine confirmatory factor analysis for SMP such as manufacturing process, supply chain management, social responsibility, and environmental management based on automotive manufacturing industry. The results of confirmatory factor analysis show that four factors for SMP implementation in Malaysian automotive industry were developed and verified. For the next agenda, the authors are looking at the confirmatory factor analysis of sustaining lean improvement in Malaysian automotive industry. The paper proposed with a future direction end of this research. BackgroundStrategically located in the centre of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Malaysia offers vast opportunities for global automotive and component manufacturers in order to set up manufacturing and distribution operations. Evidence show that Malaysia has been attracted global automotive companies (e.g. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, and Peugeot) and international component manufacturers (e.g. Delphi, Continental, Denso, and Bosch) in order to launch their product in this country and meet the highest consumer demands (Malaysian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2012). However, Malaysian government should also regulate the entry of foreign products in order to ensure the local automotive performance can survive in the local and global market. Thus, a regulatory structure practice was gazette to protect and control the automotive manufacturing activity. South Africa, for example, could sustain their economic performance by adopting an import substituting policies (Barnes et al. 2004).Due to the rise in these issues, the awareness of Sustainable Manufacturing Practices (SMPs) has become an important element in manufacturing industry. A number of researchers have attempted to refine this broad array of SMPs into the framework.

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A Case Study of Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

Conceptual sustainable production principles in practice: Do they reflect what companies do?

Conceptual sustainable production principles in practice: Do they reflect what companies do?

Analysis of Sustainable Production Practices Implemented by Car Manufacturers

Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

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