Application of AHP for Lean Implementation Analysis in 6 MSMEs

摘要

An attempt made to create an awareness about the benefits of lean manufacturing in some Micro, Small and Medium scale industries situated in the southern parts of India, and also to find out the extent up to which companies have implemented lean in their premises. The basic need for lean manufacturing is to help customers, by providing them quality products at the lowest cost and contribute to the better enhancement of the environment. In order to enforce the concept, AHP techniques have been selected. The AHP model was applied to find the best one in lean implementation from a group of six MSMEs. FUZZY AHP has been used to reduce uncertainty of the obtained results. From this the company which implemented lean best is ranked and suggestions were provided to improve in lean implementation.