TY - JFULL AU - Bhim Singh PY - 2016/6/ TI - Identification of Lean Implementation Hurdles in Indian Industries T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 1588 EP - 1593 VL - 10 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004427 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 113, 2016 N2 - Due to increased pressure from global competitors, manufacturing organizations are switching over to lean philosophies from traditional mass production. Lean manufacturing is a manufacturing philosophy which focuses on elimination of various types of wastes and creates maximum value for the end customers. Lean thinking aims to produce high quality products and services at the lowest possible cost with maximum customer responsiveness. Indian Industry is facing lot of problems in this transformation from traditional mass production to lean production. Through this paper an attempt has been made to identify various lean implementation hurdles in Indian industries with the help of a structured survey. Identified hurdles are grouped with the help of factor analysis and rated by calculating descriptive statistics. To show the effect of lean implementation hurdles a hypothesis “Organizations having higher level of lean implementation hurdles will have poor (negative) performance” has been postulated and tested using correlation matrix between performance parameters of the organizations and identified hurdles. The findings of the paper will be helpful to prepare road map to identify and eradicate the lean implementation hurdles. ER -