Sustainable Manufacturing- Need to shift in Paradigm of Indian Manufacturing Sector in Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME‟s)

“What we are producing today should be manufactured by sustainable manufacturing process. It should not impact our future generation.” Rapid industrialization & economic growth of 7.5%, continues to improve living standard but it may not continue for future generation. Modern manufacturing system, typically in Indian MSME’s consumes a large amount of resources, generates waste and pollutes the environment. Some of Raw material and energy is consumed to make the product and maximum amount of resources are wasted. There is a paradigm shift required in manufacturing sector from traditional manufacturing model, in which environmental activities in a business were seen only on cost; natural resources are viewed as freely available. For manufacturer; sustainability has been emerging as a new competitive requirement to achieve differentiation in market. The current proposed work is based on development of sustainable manufacturing model for Indian manufacturing MSME’s and proposed a framework for improving the performance to make them more sustainable. However, developing and maintaining a focus on sustainable manufacturing is new and difficult challenge for Indian MSME’s. Industries are predominantly of Micro, small and medium enterprises, having little experiences in environmental issues as most of business is family owned business and being run by single owners.