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In today’s world, technology plays a vital role demanding productivity improvements, downtime reduction in manufacturing operations industry. Depending upon the strategy and lean methodology organizations follow and apply VSM and JIT in their respective fields. The present research work discusses the methodology to determine the gap analysis of VSM tool implementation in manufacturing operation in a different set of companies using fuzzy topsis. The algorithm and methodology determines the prioritization of various factors that can and will play an important role in implementation of VSM Tool across different organizations. The methodology will determine the ranking of organization based on the closeness coefficient. ysis.

Keywords

VSM; Fuzzy; Lean; Manufacturing; Operations.

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