Lean and Green Manufacturing: Towards Eco-Efficiency and Business Performance [Hardcover]

This book provides a stage-by-stage integration of lean and green manufacturing paradigms to achieve environmental and economic benefits. The book includes chapters on conceptual development for incorporating the lean and green paradigm, and methods, tools and techniques for developing and integrating lean manufacturing. Several case studies which demonstrate the benefits of integrating lean and green manufacturing techniques are also covered here. The contents of this book are expected to support researchers and practitioners in the implementation of integrated lean and green manufacturing technologies.

Analyzing the barriers for the implementation of lean and green closed-loop supply chain in Indian SMEs.- Assessing the Drivers and Challenges to Deploying Lean-Green practices the in Indian Manufacturing Sector.- Performance Evaluation of Lean Green Healthcare Manufacturing Plants: A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach.- Impact of policy change on Sustainability initiatives by Indian firms.- Trade prediction outcomes during pandemic and its impact in lean implementation.

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan working as Head for research centre & Associate Professor in Operations & Quantitative Methods, Thigarajar School of Management, Madurai - 625015, Tamilnadu, India. Also, he is an associate editor of Environment, Development and Sustainability  Springer with impact factor of 2.1 and editing special issues in International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM), Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), Socio-Economic Planning Science (Elsevier). His publications are in IJPE, IJPR, PPC, IEEE TEM, JCP, RCR, IJAMT etc. Also, he is an editorial member in many reputed journals. One of his paper, awarded as Excellence Citation Award by Emerald Publisher Ltd.  Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan lCp