A Scientometric Review of Emerging Trends in Green Manufacturing

摘要

Green manufacturing has become the trend of the manufacturing industry development. It is also the main driving force and new engine of economic growth in various countries. With the rising cost of raw materials and energy, enterprises have to improve their products standards meanwhile decrease the corporate emissions. In a word, they need to implement a sustainable business model. The paper has carried out a comprehensive systematic literature mining of green manufacturing. A literature analysis system is created, which included literature derived from Web of Science and system analysis through Endnote and CiteSpace. We summarize past research results and identify the challenges and opportunities for the green manufacturing research.