Enhancing Leanness in Manufacturing Process of Small Scale Industry Using Fuzzy QFD Approach

Abstract

The Small Scale Industries are the integral part of Indian economy with significant contribution to GDP and employment generation in India. Due to insufficient resources, implementing lean manufacturing has still a good option for Small Scale Industries to improve its productivity. The main objective of lean is to utilize less manpower, less time to respond to customer demand,  less inventory, less time to develop products and lesser space to produce top quality products in the most efficient and economical manner as possible. The purpose of this research is to identify the lean enablers and to select the most suitable of them to enhance leanness in manufacturing. In this research, Fuzzy logic – based Quality Function Deployment (QFD) was employed for the selection of most appropriate Lean Enablers helps in Lean Manufacturing.