Barriers in Implementation of Lean Manufacturing System in Indian industry: A survey

Lean Manufacturing system has been acknowledged by Indian industry as a capable system in enhancing organisational performance by focusing on elimination of waste from the manufacturing system and thus improving effectiveness of the organisation. But still in most of Indian industries it is currently used as improvement tool instead of adopting this concept as a culture. Though if used on full scale as organisational culture it can produce significant improvement in organisational performance. This paper has attempted to explore the key barriers in extensive implementation of Lean Manufacturing even after two decades of introduction with Indian industry.