Analysis of interactions of criteria for mitigating negative social impacts of next generation manufacturing systems

Adoption of next generation manufacturing systems (NGMS) is the utmost requirement to stay and remain competitive in business. However, there are many social impacts associated with these manufacturing systems. The emphasis of this paper has been to identify critical social impact variables (SIVs) of the NGMS, understand the interactions among them and then develop a framework to mitigate their negative impacts. Interpretive structural modelling...