Technology and innovation management strategies for green manufacturing

Summary form only given. The rapid pace of technological advancements gives rise to a sense and growing concern for environmental degradation caused by the industrial units. This has brought into focus the need for strategic management of life cycle engineering to green manufacturing. Advances in green manufacturing are driven by the environmental regulations and the environmental lobbies. However, companies have begun to feel stronger environmental care incentives as can be seen by the substantial growth of products promoted as “environmentally friendly”. In manufacturing industries, coping to manage change, an integral approach to manage the environmental issues alongside with high worker and systems productivity, requires new strategies for technology and innovation management. This gives rise to the demand for green manufacturing. The paper highlights the technology management strategies for achieving green productivity. The thrust is to encourage companies, and provide them with the reasons, concepts, ideas, etc., for doing it