Recommendations and innovative improvements to develop substantiality in
Sri Lankan industries.
Now a days much attention has been paid to improve and develop sustainability in Sri Lankan
manufacturing industry in an innovative way for products, production processes, services, or business
methods to reduce environmental risk and pollution.
Using innovative improvements to develop sustainability is a major key
point for a developing country to solve current problems and to make a
strong basement worldwide in social , Environmental and Financial
way.
Financial
Considering above mentioned waste management hierarchy ,
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• Reducing wastage in apparel manufacturing:
Multi directional fabric cutting is one of main wastages in apparel field. Fabric Rubber
Those cut pieces can be used to make gloves. This would be more helpful with the
pandemic situation for employees to provide their self-protection.
And also in MAS , they sew sample garments by using cut pieces of similar fabrics
according to customer requirements and never spend money for fabrics to sew sample
designs.
These options cause to reduce wastage and sustain financial and environmental
development in Sri Lankan Manufacturing industry.
• Reduce packaging materials & Switching to sustainable packaging materials:
To eliminate the use of polythene for packaging, we can use a pressing method and it Press packaging
cause to reduce extra amount of packaging materials.
Using Paper hangers instead of Plastic hangers helps to complete packaging with law
cost.
Inserting seeds in to the cardboard packaging will help to maintain environmental Paper hanger
sustainability because after using package, consumer can plant the cardboard to grow
plants.
Edible packaging is a best way to pack organic food. It reduce the amount of polythene
Seed Plantation
and helps to keep the product fresh. on cardboard
Edible Packing
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Considering apparel industry, cut pieces of same materials can be used as the packaging.
It can reuse for carrying goods and stuff in day-to-day life.
Make bricks using wasted or used plastics and polythene can be suggested as a solution
Fabric
for reduce the environmental pollution. packaging
Brick made with
used& wasted
plastic/polythene
Making Ornaments and home gardening, using wasted things(plastics/polythene) helps
to make jobless citizens as entrepreneurs. This directly impacts to sustain the financial
status of a country.
Manufacturing field in Sri Lanka use large amount of water because of the highest
number of employees. After the first usage , water can be recycled for gardening ,
bathroom flush systems and for wash down applications.
It causes to reduce extra cost and sustain financial aspects.
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Heat recuperation
In a factory or a building, after water is used, it goes down the wastewater drain.
Wastewater presents a permanently available, heat source with comparably high temperatures, in
particular with separate sewer systems and low contents of sewer infiltration water. This goes through a
heat exchanging system and transferring heat from wastewater.
This can be used for,
• Technological purposes in food production technologies
• Livestock buildings for watering and preparing animal feed
• Heating air in drying equipment , vegetable /fruit storage rooms and for raw material stores .
In addition , through converting sunlight into electricity (Solar
panel system) is a source of income.
It is an eco friendly system because of renewability with low
maintenance cost.
Summary for Recommendations and innovative improvements
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1. Meaningful employment
2. Diversity in the workplace
3. Beyond compliance and standards
4. Support thriving Communities
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• Skill Based compensation mechanism
• Standardizing Pay bands across the business (based on the criticality or work level)
• Incorporation of incentives to the basic pay of the employees, to plan their income and expenditure
• Promote entrepreneurship programs at the division through women entrepreneurs
• Create a Technical pool for internal trainings involving Staff and Team Member employees
• Online learning platforms
• Motivational programs for life skill development
• Conduct engagement surveys for the employees.
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• Self employment initiatives are encouraged for the differently abled employees while working
• Mentorship.
• Development Programs.
• Mental Health and Well-being sessions.
• Awareness programs on life skills/financial stability/ rights
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• Create and implement a website or an online site within the Company / division that educates all level
employees on current disciplinary procedures, local labor laws, current/updated policies, and new
trends
• A clear communication channel for the Members (Eg: Through Self Terminals)
• Implement a compliance tool within the division and set a monitoring mechanism
• Implement a Risk Matrix on Security
04. Support thriving Communities
• develop below average students at the schools through motivating them to reach for higher results in
their OL examinations
• A dedicated pool of volunteers for CSR activities representing each department
• Day Care projects
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• Implement a big-data-driven system, and industrial data must be acquired and managed
with efficiency.
• Address the safety, privacy, and ethical issues that may be introduced by intelligent
manufacturing networks.
• A smart chain should be developed to link between the product knowledge, the stakeholder
data, as well as the decision making.
• More efficient use of energy and raw materials
• Promote incentives that work with human nature to encourage sustainable practices
• Increasing 7 wastes (transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, over processing,
overproduction, and defects)
• Design for remanufacturing- Disassemble it into useful parts that can be directly reused in
another product. Improvement around assembly, reparability, refurbishment and
disassembly.
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• Shift to renewable recourses-Limiting consumption of non-renewable recourses
• Protect health of ecosystems – Avoid eco-systems becoming irreparably damaged.
• Make intergenerational decisions – Make economic decisions based on long term consequences.
• Avoid excess pollution – pollution can cause damage to health
