A model for manufacturing sustainability in manufacturing operations

• Main Authors: Ebrahim, Zuhriah, Ahmad, Nurul Aini, Muhamad, Mohd Razali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication (BEIESP) 2019
• Online Access: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/25337/2/A00100681S519.PDF; http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/25337/; https://www.ijrte.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i1S5/A00100681S519.pdf

This Economically, environmentally, and societally are the integrated three pillars of sustainability. Thus, it is important for manufacturing companies to recognise the elements of sustainability in their operations. To this date, there is still a lack of studies on the fundamental elements of sustainability in the context of manufacturing operations. Therefore, this study aims to develop a model of MS in manufacturing operations. A thorough statistical analysis on literature review of sustainability that is relevant to manufacturing operations was done in order to determine the fundamental elements of MS. Pareto 80-20 rule was applied in determining the most significant fundamental elements of MS. As a result, a model of MS has been developed based on the concept of Input-Output system (I-O system) in manufacturing that consist of three major paths: (i) Input, (ii) Process, and, (iii) Output. Here, the fundamental elements of MS are categorised by the major path. In this case, the fundamental elements are divided into four different paths: (i) Sustainability Drivers as the input, (ii) Sustainability Enablers and (iii) Sustainability Measures as the process/operation, and (iv) Sustainability Impacts as the output.