Modelling of World Class Manufacturing Enablers for Indian Manufacturing Organisations-An ISM Approach

The aim of this article is to analyse the enablers that lead to the successful implementation of World Class Manufacturing practices (WCM). For understanding the context ual relationship among the WCM enablers Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) approach has been used in this article. Identification of WCM enablers have been through the literature review and expert's opinion from industry. A total 79 WCM enablers have been identified and then divided into nine groups of enablers. ISM has been applied on these nine groups of enablers for development of a hierarchical structure for analyzingthe interactions among the enablers.