Analysis of Barriers to World Class Manufacturing Using Graph Theory

In the present work various barriers in the way to attain WCM has been identified through extreme literature review and discussion with the personal from industry. Some of the factors are qualitative and some are quantitative. Therefore, Graph theoretic approach (GTA) is used assess the impact of different barriers. GTA is selected because it is capable of taking in account the inheritance and inter-dependencies of barriers which may either be qualitative or quantitative. Interaction in-between barriers are represented with digraph representation. For easy processing with computer digraph is converted into matrix representation and expanded as permanent function.