Benchmarking is the systematic search for best practices that guides to premium performance. It is the most preferred tool for business performance improvement . It has been widely adopted in the recent years across Indian industries. However, the full benefits have not been extracted from every sector of Indian industries. The book has made an attempt to decode the success factors of implementing benchmarking concepts in Indian automobile and auto component sector.

Rakesh Jain is Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at the Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. He has over 30 years of teaching, research and consulting experience. He has supervised 8 PhD students in the area of Industrial Engineering and has published over 60 research papers in various journals and conferences.