Management Information System for Energy and Environmental Aspects of Small and Medium Scale Industries

Abstract

raditionally Small and Medium Scale Industries (SMls) have concentrated on physical rrsources but have often neglected the effective management information, though realisation of its importance is now gmwing. This requires fast and accurate computation and manipulation of huge amount of data. Information System can be used for energy and environmental planning and to reduce the energy wastage and environmental pollution. SMI’s in India mostly cater the domestic market and use local sources. These industries are mostly labour intensive. Managerial and entrepreneurial skills are less, with limited access to information and financial sources. These limitations make it dillieult for SMIs to upgrade their technologies and allocate their resources efficiently. This paper examines possible implementation of Information System based Energy and Envimomental Management System in selected SMIs. Some of the important factors identified to develop a model for this system are energy consumption, energy standards (benchmarks), emission generation, environments1 standards and production details for various sections in a foundry. The application case study to highlight the benefits of energy and environment technology option for foundry is described in this paper