Historically, management theory has ignored the constraints imposed by the biophysical (natural) environment. Building upon resource-based theory, this article attempts to fill this void by proposing a natural-resource-based view of the firm—a theory of competitive advantage based upon the firm's relationship to the natural environment. It is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development. Propositions are advanced for each of these strategies regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.

A natural resource-based view of the firm

Laser based additive manufacturing in industry and academia

A systematic literature review on green supply chain management: Research implications and future perspectives

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

The process of material cutting and fracture by high velocity water jets is a complex series of phenomena which may involve compression, tension, shear, erosion, wears, cracking, wave propagation, and cavitations damage. This makes the exact analysis of the jet cutting process to be very complicated. The problem of water jet coal cutting is a multiresponse problem. There are two output variables, depth of cut and cutting width whose optimization will result in the increase in the productivity of coal cutting. In this paper, a Taguchi–Fuzzy decision method has been used to determine the effective process parameters for improving the productivity of coal mines. The Taguchi method of experimental design is a widely accepted technique used for producing high quality products at low cost. The optimization of multiple responses in complex processes is common; therefore, to reduce the degree of uncertainty during the decision making, fuzzy rule-based reasoning was integrated with the Taguchi loss function.

Multi response optimization of process parameters based on Taguchi—Fuzzy model for coal cutting by water jet technology

Energy Value Stream Mapping a Tool to Develop Green Manufacturing

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

Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) is a blown powder laser deposition process that can be used to quickly produce fully dense metallic parts and to repair or modify high-value components. This paper illustrates the use of dimensional analysis to develop a mathematical model for the control of layer deposition in DMD. A brief explanation of the material deposition process is presented and the factors affecting the metal deposition is identified so that they can be used in modeling the height of the metal deposited. The validity of the generalized model is verified from experimental data of H13 steel and Ti material and it is found in good agreement with experimental findings.

Vinay Sharma

Papers

Multi response optimization of process parameters based on Taguchi—Fuzzy model for coal cutting by water jet technology

Energy Value Stream Mapping a Tool to Develop Green Manufacturing

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

Determination of layer thickness in direct metal deposition using dimensional analysis

Multi response optimization of process parameters based on taguchi- fuzzy model for coal cutting by water jet technology