Sustainable Material Selection for Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Hybrid Multi-criteria Decision-Making Approach

Abstract

At the present time, Sustainable materials play an important role to make the balance between environment and manufacturing. Many strategies and models have been developed in this field to improve the cost effectiveness in industries. In the last few years Govt. policies among the global and customer pressure has forced many industries to adopt sustainable materials for the manufacturing processes in industries to promote sustainability and maintain the eco balance. The increase in global carbon emission through the manufacturing processes has also forced Indian industries to adopt sustainable practices in their business. Among these, all strategies selection of sustainable materials plays an important role in the adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices in industries. The aim of this research work is to propose a Hybrid Multi-criteria-based model to evaluate the best sustainable materials for Indian manufacturing industries as India is a fast growing nation at the global level. The indicators are collected from an existing literature review and through the questionnaire survey circulated to Indian manufacturing industries. The proposed model of sustainable materials adoption is validated with a case study in the Indian additive manufacturing industry. In the end, this study concludes with the limitation, managerial implications, and future scopes. It is expected that this study will be helpful for Indian manufacturing industries which are adopting sustainable materials in their manufacturing processes.