The impacts of critical success factors for implementing green supply chain management towards sustainability: An empirical investigation of Indian automobile industry

This paper provides a literature review on zero defect manufacturing based on the content analysis performed for 280 research articles published from 1987 to 2018 in a variety of academic journals ...

Zero defect manufacturing: state-of-the-art review, shortcomings and future directions in research

At present sustainable development, assessment of sustainable manufacturing practices, and prioritisation of barriers, drivers, and indicators have become complex due to the involvement of existing...

Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making

Food manufacturing is an important value-adding sector of both local economies and the global economy in terms of job creation, food security and participatory community development, among others. Along with highly relevant issues on energy consumption, unsustainable land-use patterns, waste generation associated with the industry, social issues in terms of health and safety of food products are part of the larger sustainability concerns. While maintaining economic stability at the firm level, there is a need to develop a sustainable manufacturing strategy that addresses competitiveness and sustainability. Emerging concerns for sustainable manufacturing are circulating, but focusing on a particular industry remains a gap. Thus, this paper attempts to formulate a sustainable manufacturing strategy and then to map this strategy to established best practices. The main departure of this work is: (1) identifying the content strategy of sustainable manufacturing strategy for food manufacturing firms, (2) determining the most relevant best practice that would largely address the content strategy and (3) providing guidelines for food manufacturing decision-makers and policy-makers in strategy formulation that aims to enhance the sustainability of their manufacturing firms. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process–technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (AHP–TOPSIS) approach is used to formulate the strategy and then rank the best practices. A case study is carried out in the Philippines, and results show the content strategy and total quality management is the best practice that supports the sustainability of food manufacturing firms followed by resource and material efficiency approaches.

Applying fuzzy AHP–TOPSIS technique in identifying the content strategy of sustainable manufacturing for food production

Manufacturing industries are intense pressure to determine way to increase profit and sustain in the rapidly changing competitive market. Penetration of global market has forced industries to deliver what customers wants, and even further, what will delight them. Industries realise that delivering cost effective and high-quality products to customers in a timely manner is crucial for their today’s survival. Hence, industries seek a process that helps to organise, simplify, and expedite decision making process more accurate. Balanced scorecard is a strategic management tool to decide the criterion of critical success factors for industries growth. Analytic hierarchical process helps for evaluating various criteria to determine the best among the factors. This study is aimed to integrate BSC and AHP for a sustainable growth of manufacturing industries.

An integration of BSC and AHP for sustainable growth of manufacturing industries

An investigation was conducted to find out the influencing role of the geometry of the FSW tool on the tensile strength, corrosion resistance, wear rate of the wrought AZ80A Mg alloy joints during the FSW process FSW tools with two uniquely different geometries, namely stepped cylindrical shoulder tool and stepless cylindrical shoulder tool were employed at different combinations of speeds of rotation and traversing speed Comprehensive observations & investigations were also carried out regarding the tensile strength, wear losses & corrosion resistance of the fabricated joints The joints fabricated using stepped cylindrical shoulder tool exhibited appreciable tensile strength values at combinations of higher traversing feeds and low values of rotational speeds of the FSW tool At the same time, the joints possessing fine sized refined grains in their nugget zone have been found to exhibit higher wear losses

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Experimental study on the role of tool geometry in determining the strength & soundness of wrought Az80a Mg alloy joints during FSW process

An investigation was conducted to find out the impact of the speed of rotation and pin profile of FSW tool on the microstructural characterisation & mechanical properties AZ80A magnesium alloy joints produced using FSW technique. FSW tools with completely three distinct pin profiles were at discrete speeds of rotation. The fabricated joints & their fracture surfaces obtained during tensile tests were subjected to microstructural & scanning electron microscopic (SEM) investigations. Comprehensive observations & investigational measurements were also carried out regarding the wear & hardness of the fabricated joints. The joints fabricated at 750 rpm using the taper cylindrical pin profiled tool exhibited high quality joints with better tensile strength, higher microhardness values and minimum wear.

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Investigation on the impingement of parameters of FSW process on the microstructural evolution & mechanical properties of AZ80A Mg alloy joints

Thermoelectric Regenerative Braking System (TERBS) employs an energy recovery mechanism by utilizing the energy conversion at the time of braking in an automobile to generate electricity accordingly. During braking, the kinetic energy of the disc rotor which is transformed into heat energy is recovered using a Thermoelectric Generator (TEG). A comparison of performance between air and water cooled heat sink is made and then the optimum way of cooling is selected for the TERBS. A customized TEG module with water cooled heat sink is designed. The experimental results are analyzed for optimum performance. TERBS evidently increased the life of a battery.

I.S. Stephan Thangaiah

Papers

An integration of BSC and AHP for sustainable growth of manufacturing industries

Experimental study on the role of tool geometry in determining the strength & soundness of wrought Az80a Mg alloy joints during FSW process

Investigation on the impingement of parameters of FSW process on the microstructural evolution & mechanical properties of AZ80A Mg alloy joints

Laboratory Scale Testing of Thermoelectric Regenerative Braking System

Optimization of process parameters during wire electrical discharge machining of Ti Gr 2 for improving corner accuracy