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Life Cycle Assessment Framework for Sustainable Development in Manufacturing Environment

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To meet the changeing customer perception and environmental challenges, ecological concerns have to be assimilated into various types of judgments made by business organizations, individuals, public organizations, and policy representatives. The need for detailed information on the environmental effect leads to the development of different ecological assessment tools. The life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool of Green Lean Six Sigma (GLS) that provides a detailed analysis of the unit process of the product system. It considers life cycle perspective, quantitative, based on science and encompasses a wide spectrum of ecological issues. The inclusive application of LCA requires a clear understanding of the goal line and opportunity of the LCA from a system point, data for analysis of data from life cycle point of view, and identification and interpretation of various green measures. Therefore taking into considerations all these issues pertaining to LCA, the present work provides a systematic LCA procedure for the manufacturing organizations. The present framework denotes phases to be considered during goal and scope definition of LCA study, different types of data set to be considered for analysis and also provides guidelines to analyze and interpret the results associated with inventory and other green measures. The present work will facilitate the organizations to make sustainable decisions; besides, it will provide a deep insight into the organizations’ managers to execute life cycle assessment for the benefits of three dimensions of sustainability.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144401, India

    Mahender Singh Kaswan, Rajeev Rathi & Mahipal Singh

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India

    Dinesh Khanduja

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  3. Centre for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Sunpreet Singh

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Kaswan, M.S., Rathi, R., Khanduja, D., Singh, M. (2020). Life Cycle Assessment Framework for Sustainable Development in Manufacturing Environment. In: Krolczyk, G., Prakash, C., Singh, S., Davim, J. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Manufacturing. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4565-8_10

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