A Comparative Analysis of Industrial Leanness Index, Weak Areas, Ranking Score and Performance Importance Score for Indian Food Processing Industries

In previous research, authors evaluate leanness in various types of industries like manufacturing, service, aerospace, automobile, electronics, wood, ceramics, packaging and printing. There is small wrk on assessment of leanness for food processing industry as per literature. The fuzzy logic is generally used approach to find the leanness level of any company. Fuzzy approach is used to convert the questionnaire's responses into mathematical values. In this case study based paper; the fuzzy logic is used to check the current status of implemented lean strategies of two food process enterprises one is a bread manufacturing company and other is rusk and noodles making company. Leanness level of both case companies is shown graphically using MATLAB. And a comparison of leanness of both organizations has been done to find common popular used highly beneficial lean practices. The basic motivation behind this work is to find commonly used lean practices in food processing industries and also find the weak areas of food processing industries where improvement is needed.