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Experiencing Life Cycle Assessment in Indian Additive Manufacturing Industries: Needs, Challenges and Solutions

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Indian manufacturing industries are now more focused on the adoption of new business models over traditional business models to achieve sustainability in business practices. Now the industries are assessing their environmental impacts to promote sustainability and life cycle assessment applications. This study focused on the semi-structured interview with the Indian additive manufacturing experts from the Southern and northern region of India. The study was conducted on email interviews, in-depth phone calls and a multiple-choice questionnaire survey circulated through emails. The interviewees represented the different stakeholders in the Indian additive manufacturing industries with varying knowledge of life cycle assessment including the additive manufacturing product manufacturers, consultants for AM industries, research institutes and academia. The experts suggested that there is a need for good understanding the different factors in additive manufacturing industries which will help them to lower their carbon emissions and conduct the LCA in the industries with proper LCA tools and databases available for additive manufacturing industries. This study will be helpful for the researchers and R&D in industries to provide insights that how Indian additive manufacturing industries experience the use of life cycle assessment. In the study, several awareness issues are addressed which will be beneficial for Indian additive manufacturing industries to expand and accelerate the life cycle assessment applications in additive manufacturing industries.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, J.L.N. Marg, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302017, India

    Alok Yadav, Anbesh Jamwal & Rajeev Agrawal

  2. Centre for Electronic Governance, Department of Technical Education, Govt. of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004, India

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Jinesh Kumar Jain

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India

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Yadav, A., Jamwal, A., Agrawal, R., Kumar, S. (2022). Experiencing Life Cycle Assessment in Indian Additive Manufacturing Industries: Needs, Challenges and Solutions. In: Agrawal, R., Jain, J.K., Yadav, V.S., Manupati, V.K., Varela, L. (eds) Recent Advances in Industrial Production. ICEM 2020. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5281-3_7

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