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Prioritizing of factors for effective lean manufacturing poses a challenge to management due to complexities in interrelationships. Diligent understanding of measures of lean manufacturing assumes great importance. Essential manufacturing flexibilities take care of uncertainties driven by dynamics of the market. Interrelationship between factors of manufacturing flexibility and lean manufacturing adds to complexity. Judicious analysis of these factors is imperative to understand their effect on lean manufacturing. Total interpretive structural modeling methodology is used for establishing relationships among the factors affecting lean performance. Case studies have been carried out and TISM is applied to understand the dynamism of factors. Study brings out how the organization of the companies and level of automation help in understating the driving and dependence power. The study helps in understanding the influence of hierarchy and level of factors identified by TISM technique on lean performance as also the factors which merit attention of top management to achieve better results

The rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in India over the past few decades has resulted in severe environmental destruction and loss of traditional livelihoods, as well as worsened economic and social inequalities. Ennore, a northern suburb of Chennai is a classic example of this phenomenon. This photo essay presents the deleterious impacts of urbanisation on the artisanal fisherfolk of Ennore. The inherently unsustainable nature of water extraction for industries in this region coupled with lax regulations first destroyed the Ennore creek and consequently fisherfolk livelihoods. Dwindling fish catches have created an artificial demand for jobs, thereby resulting in formerly independent communities being completely enslaved to the development paradigm. The state's response has not been to fix environmental and community health problems in Ennore, but only to push for more growth and development. The essay argues that this toxic idea of growth needs to be dismantled first, if the degradation of livelihood commons is to be stopped.