**3.1 Introduction to Green Manufacturing**

Global warming is escalating and people concerned are paying more attention to a clean and green environment. Even though Lean enhances performance in the


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**Figure 5.**

*Top 25 Lean Tools with their applications.*

SMEs but does not consider any environmental factors during its implementation. Green Manufacturing is popularly known as sustainable manufacturing, it is a business strategy yielding profit through proactive environmental friendly operating methods.

Green Manufacturing originated at the beginning of the 1990s by eco-innovation is a novel production method leading to mitigating environmental pollution and negative effects of resources utilized. Numerous research work has been done to discover the green approach in SMEs. It is considered as an environmental and economical-driven method to minimalize waste by designing an efficient process

and selecting materials without compromising the environment factors. Only Best practice should be adopted so that Green Manufacturing becomes effective. The International Standard Organization (ISO) came up with an international standard for Environmental Management System known as ISO14001 during the year 2013. These standards act like a systematic continuous improvement tool to implement Green Manufacturing.
