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Productivity, more often defined as a ratio between an output value and an input value used to produce the output. Cement is one of the key essential materials in the construction industry. For the Indian cement industry, many challenges lie ahead. Increase in productivity is imperative in order to raise the standards of living and also to make the Indian exports globally competitive. Enhancement in productivity cannot be achieved without identifying and analyzing factors that adversely affect productivity. Measuring and quantifying the impact of factors influencing productivity of cement industries is a complex problem. Productivity barriers in cement industries are hampering its growth. Productivity problems can be minimized or avoided when their causes are clearly identified. Hence, exploring productivity determinants and their relationship with productivity of cement industries are important. A set of 49 productivity factors were extracted based on the related literature. The frequency of questionnaire data was obtained from SPSS software & then RII is calculated. Then Structural Equation Modeling is used to show the relationship between the most and least contributing factors. Finally productivity assessment models were then developed using fuzzy logic toolbox. So the study concludes that the power of fuzzy logic techniques can be very useful in the productivity problem environment and has future application