A review of Socio-economic indicators of sustainable Manufacturing

Manufacturing organizations are implementing sustainability practices to be-come more sustainable. Understanding the manufacturing sustainability in-volves indicators which provides a quantitative or qualitative way of meas-ure to the organizations success in implementing the suitability practices in the organization. Hence present paper analyses the studies conducted in the field of sustainable manufacturing and identifies the socio-economic indica-tors of sustainability frequently used by the researches. From the review of the literature the 51 indicators were identified and then categorized in to meaningful groups to provide for the meaning context to these indicators. These indicators will be quite helpful in the assessment of manufacturing or-ganizations with respect to socio-economic sustainability.