Green Manufacturing Model for Indian
Apparel Industry Using Interpretive
Structural Modeling
Ankur Saxena and Ajit Kumar Khare
1 Introduction and Literature Review
1.1 Green Manufacturing and Its Advantage
Researchers have given multiple definitions of green manufacturing; one of the definitions given by Das et al. states that there are manufacturing methods that support and
sustain a renewable way of producing products and services that do no harm to you
or the environment [1, 2]. Green manufacturing is defined as the design, processing
and commercial use of materials processes and products, which are economical and
sustainable while minimizing pollution and risk to human health and the environment. Green manufacturing is more of a philosophy rather than an adopted process
or standard [6].
Green manufacturing is a need for sustainable development and a means of
competitive advantage for the firms [7]. It is considered that firms which successfully
implement green manufacturing are preferred by customers. These manufacturing
organizations continuously strive hard to innovate strategies to adopt the green practices to reorganize the supply chain structures, so that benefit of strategic green
manufacturing practices can be achieved in the product management [8–11]. The
value of investing in green technology and green transformation is considered as a
A. Saxena (B)
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Jodhpur 342017, India
e-mail: ankur.saxena@nift.ac.in
A. K. Khare
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai 410210, India
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Majumdar et al. (eds.), Functional Textiles and Clothing 2020,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9376-5_14
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Apparel Industry Using Interpretive
Structural Modeling
Ankur Saxena and Ajit Kumar Khare
1 Introduction and Literature Review
1.1 Green Manufacturing and Its Advantage
Researchers have given multiple definitions of green manufacturing; one of the definitions given by Das et al. states that there are manufacturing methods that support and
sustain a renewable way of producing products and services that do no harm to you
or the environment [1, 2]. Green manufacturing is defined as the design, processing
and commercial use of materials processes and products, which are economical and
sustainable while minimizing pollution and risk to human health and the environment. Green manufacturing is more of a philosophy rather than an adopted process
or standard [6].
Green manufacturing is a need for sustainable development and a means of
competitive advantage for the firms [7]. It is considered that firms which successfully
implement green manufacturing are preferred by customers. These manufacturing
organizations continuously strive hard to innovate strategies to adopt the green practices to reorganize the supply chain structures, so that benefit of strategic green
manufacturing practices can be achieved in the product management [8–11]. The
value of investing in green technology and green transformation is considered as a
A. Saxena (B)
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Jodhpur 342017, India
e-mail: ankur.saxena@nift.ac.in
A. K. Khare
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai 410210, India
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Majumdar et al. (eds.), Functional Textiles and Clothing 2020,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9376-5_14
191