Selection of LEAN Facilitator and Machine for Implementing LEAN Manufacturing System in a Discrete Manufacturing

In present competitive business environment, Lean manufacturing becomes a key strategy for global competition. Lean manufacturing is a combination of best techno social practices which consists of the social aspects (people and society) and technical aspects (machine and technology).Most of the lean practices are shop floor techniques that concentrate in eliminating non value added activity in the production floor. The purpose of lean manufacturing is to attain higher quality, productivity, Yield and less down times of machines. For successful implementation of LEAN manufacturing system in any organization-selection of facilitator and system of evaluating the degree of applied lean tools for selected process plays a vital role. To solve this type multi criteria decision making problems, a detailed study and investigation done using VIKOR method. By using the VIKOR method the decision makers can take the decision which is closer to the ideal solutions. In this paper linguistic fuzzy data is used to find the ratings and weights. A numerical example is proposed to demonstrate with an application of the proposed technique. Finally under fuzzy environment using this VIKOR method, with multi criterion decision makers and with their weightage best LEAN facilitator was selected to implement lean manufacturing system .At the same time to adopt appropriate lean tools and get desired results best fitted lean process line and machine was selected and identified.