ANALYSING THE BARRIERS AND SOLUTIONS TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS MANUFACTURING USING AHPPROMETHEE HYBRID FRAMEWORK

Conventional manufacturing system focuses only on economic growth but with the increase in pollution and rapid depletion of natural resources,there is a need of adopting Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (ECM), which gives the utmost importance to environment along with andeconomy and society comes. Adopting ECM may act as solution of the problem of increasing pollution level and scarcity of natural resources. Butfor adopting ECM, there is a requirement of full understanding of various barriers in attaining the goal of ECM and their solutions to remove or tolower the impacts of barriers otherwise it may lead to heavy losses. In this research study efforts have been made to identify and analyse varioussolutions to adopt ECM with respect to various barriers. With the help of literature and inputs from experts’, total eleven solutions and ten barriershave been identified and analysed using AHP-PROMETHEE hybrid framework. Results revealed that strong and clear policies formation along withits execution, firm focused producer towards environment issues, designing the products for remanufacturing, training for skill enhancement of theworkforce and financial support for technological up gradation are the top rated solutions to be adopted to promote the concept of ECM. The finalresults will be very helpful in adopting ECM.