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Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam

TS176.K74 2015

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Main Author: Krishnakumar Kalaiarasan
Format: text::Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Manufacturing resource planning
Enviromental protection > Management
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-351742024-12-01T02:02:13Z Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam Krishnakumar Kalaiarasan Manufacturing resource planning Enviromental protection -- Management TS176.K74 2015 Being one of the biggest and pioneer industrialized city in Malaysia with large urban settlements, Shah Alam has been prone to serious environmental issues in the last decades. It's a little known fact that the operation of small and medium manufacturing industries make up a significant fraction of the industrial areas in Shah Alam. The small and medium manufacturing industries generate severe environmental impact and it lags far behind compared to other industries and sectors in implementing Environmental Management due to various factors. This study is to evaluate environmental impacts of manufacturing and to examine the company behaviour towards Environmental Management, thus explore the available measures for Environmental Management by employing a Questionnaire survey. This research summarizes and discusses the result of a survey on Environmental Management in Small and Medium Scale Manufacturing Industries in Shah Alam. This survey was conducted in the beginning of July 2015. 100 different small and medium scale (SME) manufacturing companies were approached to participate in this site survey spanning over different industrial parks and areas of Shah Alam. This survey yielded a response rate of 57%. The rest of the respondents were identified to be not SMEs. The primary respondents were from different manufacturing sectors such as automotive, petroleum, chemicals, plastics, food production, metal manufacturing, wood, paper, leather, electrical, electronics, and general machinery. The results discusses the respondent's profile, subject's environmental management practices, their relations with stakeholders, and environmental awareness. A thorough statistical analysis is carried out with the results obtained. This research also covers various aspects of internationally recognized ISO 14001 standard (Environmental Management) including its history, characteristics barriers, critical success factor and benefits. 2024-11-29T02:38:31Z 2024-11-29T02:38:31Z 2015 Resource Types::text::Final Year Project https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/35174 en application/pdf
institution Universiti Tenaga Nasional
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country Malaysia
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language English
topic Manufacturing resource planning
Enviromental protection -- Management
spellingShingle Manufacturing resource planning
Enviromental protection -- Management
Krishnakumar Kalaiarasan
Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam
description TS176.K74 2015
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author Krishnakumar Kalaiarasan
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title Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam
title_short Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam
title_full Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam
title_fullStr Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam
title_full_unstemmed Environmental management in small and medium scale manufacturing industries in Shah Alam
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