Identifying effective PMSs for the deployment of “green” manufacturing strategies

TLDR

Environmental issues are rapidly emerging as a key factor in strategic manufacturing decisions, prompting public awareness and government interest that drive companies to adopt programs for improving environmental performance, yet existing models fail to provide operating guidelines for adapting systems to support different green manufacturing strategies. The study aims to illustrate techniques and architecture for performance measurement systems (PMSs) that enable the implementation of feasible green manufacturing strategies. It proposes a framework of PMSs that can be tailored to deploy various green manufacturing strategies.

Abstract

Environmental issues are rapidly emerging as one of the most important topics in strategic manufacturing decisions. Growing public awareness and increasing government interest in the environment have induced many companies to adopt programmes aimed at improving the environmental performance of their operations. State of the art literature has proposed many models to support executives in the assessment of a company’s environmental performance. Unfortunately, none of these identifies operating guidelines on how the systems should be adapted to support the deployment of different types of “green” manufacturing strategies. The present paper seeks to illustrate techniques and architecture for performance measurement systems (PMSs) to support the implementation of feasible “green” manufacturing strategies.