Title: A multiple criteria decision-making improvement strategy in complex manufacturing processes

Authors: Mohyiddine Soltani; Hichem Aouag; Mohammed Djamel Mouss

Addresses: Laboratory of Automation and Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Batna2, Rue Chahid Boukhlouf Med El Hadi, 05000 Batna, Algeria ' Laboratory of Automation and Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Batna2, Rue Chahid Boukhlouf Med El Hadi, 05000 Batna, Algeria ' Laboratory of Automation and Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Batna2, Rue Chahid Boukhlouf Med El Hadi, 05000 Batna, Algeria

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to propose an improvement strategy based on multi-criteria decision making approaches, including fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP), preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluation II (PROMETHEE) and višekriterijumsko kompromisno rangiranje (VIKOR) for the objective of simplifying and organising the improvement process in complex manufacturing processes. Firstly, the proposed strategy started with the selection of decision makers', such as company leaders, to determine performance indicators. Then fuzzy AHP is used to quantify the weight of each defined indicators. Finally, the weights carried out from fuzzy AHP approach are used as input in VIKOR and PROMETHE II to rank the operations according to their improvement priority. The results obtained from each outranking method are compared and the best method is determined.

Keywords: analytic hierarchy process; AHP; višekriterijumsko kompromisno rangiranje; VIKOR; fuzzy logic; PROMETHE; improvement priority; complex manufacturing process.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2022.126075

International Journal of Operational Research, 2022 Vol.45 No.2, pp.194 - 218

Received: 19 Sep 2019
Accepted: 09 Jan 2020
Published online: 11 Oct 2022 *

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