Part 1: Manufacturing -- Chapter 1. Analysis of Poor Quality Cost in Auto Industry: A Case Study -- Chapter 2. Innovativeness in Indian Defence Sector: An Academic Strategy Perspective and the Way Ahead -- Chapter 3. Work center productivity analysis for making the manufacturing lean: A case study on glass lined pressure vessels -- Chapter 4. Improvement in Productivity of Assembly line by Cycle Time Reduction: A case study -- Chapter 5. A Challenging Future of Industry 4.0 - New Technologies and Lean Production Systems -- Chapter 6. Productivity Improvement Using Principles of Kaizen -- Chapter 7. Application of Work Measurement to reduce the cycle time in manufacturing firm: A Case Study -- Chapter 8. Rapid Tooling Technologies Based on Additive Manufacturing: A Comprehensive Review -- Chapter 9. Role of Drivers, Barriers and Critical success factors for lean readiness in Indian Manufacturing Industries -- Chapter 10. Investigation of Quality of clean-Cut surface for sheet metal blankingusing Decision Tree -- Chapter 11. Increasing Time Efficiency in Jewellery Industry using Lean Manufacturing Principles -- Chapter 12. Productivity Improvement by Applying Lean Tools for Manufacturing of Mechanical Seal -- Chapter 13. A Conceptual Framework Involving Barriers in the Integration of Additive Manufacturing with Industry 4.0 Practices -- Chapter 14. A case study to control welding defects in Pressure Vessels -- Chapter 15. Managerial Insights into the GSCM Practices in the Indian SME Manufacturing Firms. etc.