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—The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical lean manufacturing metrics that influence the adoption of lean practices in Coimbatore machine tool industries, Tamil Nadu. The research approach helps in identifying the important lean metrics through a questionnaire survey and the responses of the selected respondents are statistically validated for their reliability using Cronbach Alpha in SPSS 20.0 software. Further the constructed variables for lean adoption were theoretically tested for their relationship through correlation and regression analysis in SPSS 20.0. The approach follows a structured research methodology to statistically validate the model to identify those variables with high convergence and leverages for the organization to be completely ‘lean’ in their process. The research provides guidelines and direction for organizations to implement those prime lean metrics with high benefits and leverages suitable for organizations to implement lean in their machine tool industries. This research is confined only to machine tool industries and in future could be extended to other manufacturing firms such as automotive, electrical and electronics, pump, textiles and other service industries too.