Assessment of Achieving Sustainability in Indian Automobile Industry

As for manufacturing industry, it is extremely resource-consuming & energy-intensive. It generates enormous amounts of toxic and unusable by-products and therefore pushes the manufacturers to comply with the environmental regulations to bring down their share of ecological imbalance. Sustainability can be a key for industries development. Sustainability is about balancing social, ethical and environmental issues without compromising on the economy during the product or service development process. It makes sure that the needs of customer and society are fulfilled while protecting the environment. This definition communicates the inherent complexity in quantifying sustainability and racking efforts. There are ways in which sustainability is achieved in the manufacturing processes. One such concept is Lean Technology. Lean is baby-step towards the aforementioned sustainability as these tools may typically be applied to any kind of process, including the environmental ones and consummates our sustainability models thoroughly and may be extended to a much broader goal.

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He is BE (Mechanical), M.Tech. (Manufacturing System Engineering) in Department of Mech. Engg., MNIT Jaipur, (India). His research interests on industrial development and Renewal energy resources.

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As for manufacturing industry, it is extremely resource-consuming & energy-intensive. It generates enormous amounts of toxic and unusable by-products and therefore pushes the manufacturers to comply with the environmental regulations to bring down their share of ecological imbalance. Sustainability can be a key for industries development. Sustainability is about balancing social, ethical and environmental issues without compromising on the economy during the product or service development process. It makes sure that the needs of customer and society are fulfilled while protecting the environment. This definition communicates the inherent complexity in quantifying sustainability and racking efforts. There are ways in which sustainability is achieved in the manufacturing processes. One such concept is Lean Technology. Lean is baby-step towards the aforementioned sustainability as these tools may typically be applied to any kind of process, including the environmental ones and consummates our sustainability models thoroughly and may be extended to a much broader goal.