Sustainable Green Development and Manufacturing Performance through Modern Production Techniques

Various Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques in one book: 13 MCDM techniques have been applied, namely, WSM, WPM, WASPAS, GRA, SMART, CRITIC, ENTROPY, EDAS, MOORA, AHP, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and new tools: MDEMATEL, Fuzzy MDEMATEL, Modified Fuzzy TOPSIS and Modified Fuzzy VIKOR. To date, no other book possesses this many tools.

Various quantitative techniques: Different quantitative techniques have been applied, namely, Cronbach alpha, Chi-square and ANOVA (for demographic analysis), Percent Point Score and Central Tendency (response analysis), Factor Analysis, Correlation and Regression. To date, no other book possesses this many tools.

Interpretive Structural Modelling: ISM has been applied for verifying MCDM results through MICMAC analysis and ISM model thus paving the way for model through SEM. Structural Equation Modelling: SEM using AMOS in PASW has been applied for model development.

New MCDM techniques developed: In the process during qualitative analysis, new tools have been developed and their results have been compared with other existing MCDM tools and the results are encouraging. The new techniques are MDEMATEL, Fuzzy MDEMATEL, Modified Fuzzy TOPSIS and Modified Fuzzy VIKOR.

Qualitative Model Developed: As the title says, Sustainable Green Development and Manufacturing Performance through Modern Production Techniques. It is a need-of-the-hour topic, as industries must maintain their performance (sustainable development) and, while sustaining, they have to keep in mind green issues (that is, environment-related issues, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic) and adopt advanced manufacturing and maintenance techniques. A model for this has been developed which will be helpful to both academicians and industrialists.

Real-time Case Studies: Case studies in two industries of differing origins, different manufacturing sectors, different products, and comparing their units in the country of their origin and India.

Dr. Chandan Deep Singh is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab (India). He is a co-author of Adolescents, Family and Consumer Behaviour (Routledge, 2020) and of Manufacturing Competency and Strategic Success in the Automobile Industry (CRC Press, 2019).

Dr. Harleen Kaur is a manager (HR) at DELBREC Industries, Pvt. Ltd., Chandigarh. She co-authored Adolescents, Family and Consumer Behaviour (Routledge, 2020).

Dr. Chandan Deep Singh is working as assistant professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab (India) since 2011. He has completed his Ph.D. in November 2016 from the same institution. His M.Tech. (Manufacturing Systems Engineering) is from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Sangrur, Punjab (India), completed in 2011. He completed B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 from Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Bathinda, Punjab (India). He has scored 94.8 percentile in GATE examination in 2010. He has published 57 books (2 books including his PhD thesis have been published by Taylor and Francis) and guided 57 students for M.Tech. thesis. He has published more than 77 papers in various scopus/SCI indexed international journals and 14 papers in international conferences. To add to it, 4 papers have been accepted and 6 papers are under review in scopus/SCI indexed international journals. Further, a book, as an editor is accepted in Wiley-Scrivener Publisher. Presently, 1 M. Tech. and 8 Ph. D. students are working under his guidance. Lastly, 2 chapters in book have been selected by Taylor and Francis in their initiative SDGO and 2 chapters have been accepted for publication in Wiley- Scrivener in HICO 2021.

Dr. Harleen Kaur is working as Manager (HR) at DELBREC Industries, Pvt. Ltd., Chandigarh. Earlier, she has served as Assistant Professor of Management in Asra Institute of Advanced Studies, Bhawanigarh till Sept 2019. Till 2013, She had worked as HR (Executive) at International Farm Fresh Products (India), Ltd., Channo (Bhawanigarh). She has completed her Ph.D. in 2019 from Punjabi University, Patiala. She did her MBA in HR from RIMT, Mandi Gobindgarh in 2011. She has published more than 10 research papers in various international journals and conferences along with 19 books with international publishers (her PhD thesis has been published as a book by Taylor and Francis). To add to it, 2 papers have been accepted and 4 papers are under review in scopus/SCI indexed international journals. Further, a book, as an editor is accepted in Wiley-Scrivener Publisher. Lastly, 2 more chapters have been accepted for publication in Wiley- Scrivener in HICO 2021.