Article ID: | iaor20032457 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 303 |
End Page Number: | 315 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2001 |
Journal: | Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis |
Authors: | Braglia Marcello, Gabbrielli Roberto, Miconi Dante |
Keywords: | manufacturing industries, analytic hierarchy process |
This paper presents a new multi-criteria decision model for the material handling device (MHD) selection problem in cellular manufacturing systems. Given a set of manufacturing cells based on several automatic work-centres, the technique makes it possible to select a particular MHD for each cell in an integrated way, with different constraints being taken into consideration. The approach is based on two different multi-attribute analyses executed with analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology, and a final integer linear programming including important limitations faced by the designer when making MHD investment decisions. An example using real data is provided to illustrate this methodology.