International Journal of Business, Human and Social Sciences ISSN: 2517-9411 Vol:11, No:4, 2017 1021 Abstract—There is drastic change in manufacturing era in last two decades. It has become mandatory for the industries to become aware of latest and advanced manufacturing technologies and strategies. Leagile manufacturing focuses on minimizing the wastes and meeting customers’ requirements in minimum time possible. However, it becomes difficult to implement all leagile tools simultaneously in industry. In this paper, 17 main criteria of leagile manufacturing have been found and DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) approach has been applied to analyze importance of criteria and casual relations among these criteria. Keywords—Agile, DEMATEL approach, lean, leagilemanufacturing. I. INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW EAGILE is a combination of both lean and agile manufacturing. Lean tries to eliminate all those activities which do not add value to the product. Lean Manufacturing tries to eliminate different types of wastes that include overproduction, motion, transportation, defects, inventory, etc. Agility can be defined as business wide practice that enables enterprise to respond to sudden changes and meet widely varied customer requirements. Postponement is delaying of operational activities in a system until customer orders are received rather than completing activities in advance and then waiting for orders. For better understanding of leagility concept, it is necessary to study both concepts; lean and agile. Implementation of lean manufacturing in industries fully started from Womack’s famous book ‘The machine that changed the world’ [1]. The lean manufacturing concept focuses on maximum customer satisfaction by providing quality products at reasonable cost. The need of lean capability has become mandatory for all organizations in order to survive in the market [2]. VSM is found to be important tool by enhancing the value of the product and eliminating all those activities which do not add value to the product [3]. Lean manufacturing involves various tools and techniques which have ultimately objective of achieving maximum customer satisfaction by proving quality products to customers. Lean and agile manufacturing are most widely used strategies in the current scenario [4]. Agility means using market knowledge as well as virtual Naveen Virmani is pursuing PhD from YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad(e-mail: naveenvirmani11@gmail.com). Dr. Rajeev Saha is Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, YMCAUST, Faridabad.(e-mail: rajeevsaha@gmail.com). Dr. RajeshwarSahai is Director at Rattan College, Faridabad. (e-mail: rajeshwar.sahai@rediffmail.com). corporation to exploit profitable opportunities in volatile market. Leagile system has characteristics of both lean and agile manufacturing systems. Reference [5]-[7], defined agile manufacturing as the capability of organization to exploit market opportunities in cost effective manner [20]. II. IDENTIFICATION OF LEAGILE MANUFACTURING CRITERIA’S 17 leagile manufacturing criteria are identified and listed in Table I. TABLE I LIST OF LEAGILE CRITERIA S.No Leagile Manufacturing Criteria Authors 1 Six Sigma [8]-[11] 2 Supplier Development [12]-[15] 3 Information Technology [16]-[19] 4 Kaizen [20]-[23] 5 Remuneration and Increment Policies [24]-[26] 6 Training and Motivational Programs [27], [28] 7 Poke Yoke [10], [15] 8 FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) [29]-[31] 9 ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) [32]-[35] 10 Group Technology [36], [37] 11 Organizational Culture [38]-[40] 12 Innovation and R & D [41], [42] 13 TQM [43]-[46] 14 Reconfiguration capabilities [10], [15], [21] 15 Concurrent Engineering [47]-[49] 16 Supply Chain Management (SCM) [10], [11], [15] 17 CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) [39], [46], [49] III. QUESTIONNAIRE BASED SURVEY The questionnaire consist of 17 leagile criteriawhich have been found out through literature review. For evaluating the questionnaire, 5 point Likert scale was used. 1 stands for no influence, 2 stands for low influence, 3 stands for medium influence, 4 stands for high influence and 5 stands for very high influence. A. Survey Administration Self-contact, e-mail and postal methods were used for analysis of survey. In total, questionnaires were sent to 100 Indian companies. B. Survey Responses and the Respondents’ Profile 37 filled questionnaires were received out of 100 sent questionnaire. Seven questionnaires were incompletely filled and were removed. So, only 30 of them are considered for analysis. This gives a response rate of 30%, which is not very Evaluation of Leagile Criteria Using DEMATEL Approach Naveen Virmani, Rajeev Saha, Rajeshwar Sahai L