Hello Everyone,
I had recently conducted a survey on Enablers and Barriers of Sustainable Manufacturing in addition to other key parameters too amongst 2 different groups; one being the Researchers working in the field of Sustainable Manufacturing all over the world and the other part being the industry professionals focussing various small, medium and large scale industry professionals in Ludhiana (Punjab, India) also known as "Manchester of East" as it has an established manufacturing base for engineering products (Source: http://progressivepunjab.gov.in/keycities.aspx)
The top 3 Enablers and Barriers highlighted by both the groups are shown as follows:
Enablers:
As per Researchers:
As per Industry Professionals:
Barriers:
As per Researchers:
As per Industry Professionals:
I shall be grateful to all concerned researchers if they could participate and give their views on the highlighted enablers and barriers as on why there is so much of difference in opinions of both the groups and what can be the cause of these enablers & barriers and what are the pertaining issues which needs to be tackled in them.
Sustainable Manufacturing
Key business driver
Sustainable Manufacturing Practices and Business Strategies
Jeanette Clute, Sustainable Business Strategies, Ford Motor Company
International Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, September 24, 2008
Enablers:
1. Business resilience reducing dependability by scarce resources or higher energy costs (that's the strong enabler for stakeholders)
2. Economic benefits that's: lowering manufacturing costs and pollution taxation as well as waste management
3. Government incentives and protection of sustainable companies and practices over the short and medium term (i.e. discouraging unfair competition with countries and companies not investing in sustainable manufacturing)
Barriers:
1. The investments in sustainable manufacturing are more seen as a cost instead an opportunity (i.e. lack of understanding about sustainable business models)
2. Virtuous companies implementing sustainable manufacturing are less competitive on the short-meidum term (because of the huge investments) and not protected against unsustainable business practices
3. Government have a short-term (next elections) perspective and are not committed to invest and support sustainability
see "Industrial sustainability: challenges, perspectives, actions", S.Evans et al. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 7 (2), 143-163 for a research agenda and recommendations for Governments, Researchers, Companies, Education, ...
Procurement is an important link of Manufacturing. Especially, in private sectors where material cost is a concern on the bottom line.
Companies are mapped onto a framework of approaches to sustainable procurement,
- Based on demand drivers
- Classified on Proven-ability as
This facilitates exploration to predict the future of sustainable procurement within the companies.
http://www.ipsera.com/assets/documents/Walker
Dear @Neeraj, I find this article as very appropriate for your research question.
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Key enablers are:
green innovation
affirmative relationship of sustainability dimensions and business performance
Barriers:
Investment
fading of technologies in very fast manner
awareness among each and every employee
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Dear Dr. Neeraj,
Please check the following resources.
Best regards
SM Najim
http://www.ijssh.org/papers/575-C10024.pdf
http://lib.uum.edu.my:8080/bitstream/123456789/199/1/152.pdf
http://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2099.1/14579/Master%20of%20science%20thesis.pdf?sequence=1
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-013-4951-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638282/pdf/rsfs20120039.pdf
http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/7199/1/Hussain_MASc_S2011.pdf
I am really thankful to all the respected researchers for providing useful resources.
Regards
Neeraj
High Performance Teams and their sustainability impacts in manufacturing organizations
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Dear Neeraj,
Some enablers may have a connection to the barriers. For example, green / sustainable technology may be too costly to implement at its premature stage or due to economies of scale. In your question, this is identified as a barrier. Indeed, it may be argued that green technology is hardly an economic necessity, but a political agenda. In such a case government regulations may support the development of the green / sustainable technology until it reaches the stage of economic efficiency. This has been identified as an enabler in your list. Hence, barriers and enablers may go hand in hand.
This has been the case in Germany with solar energy. Installation of solar modules has been subsidized by the government for a number of years, on a declining scale. The decline of governmental support has been explained with technological and economic advancements that the solar module producers were expected to achieve over time. It has been supposed that the industry would reach economic efficiency by the time the governmental support ceases. Interestingly, this regulation has greatly supported low-cost producers all over the world shipping modules to Germany. After the expiring of the governmental program several major German producers went bankrupt.
Paul
Dear Dr. Bhanot!
I take a case-study approach, by focusing on COVID-19 vaccines:
1) Fu, X., Buckley, P.J., Sanchez-Ancochea, D. et al. The world has a unique opportunity: Accelerating technology transfer and vaccine production through partnerships. J Int Bus Policy (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-021-00124-7 Free access: Article The world has a unique opportunity: Accelerating technology ...
2) Ole Kristian Aars et al. 2021. Increasing efficiency in vaccine Production: A primer for change, Vaccine: X Volume 8, August 2021 Open access: Article Increasing Efficiency in Vaccine Production: a primer for change
May I argue that sustainable development goals must be integrated to the vaccine production process worldwide: this is a case (vaccine type) - and context (environment) dependent problem to solve.
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
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