Evaluation of environmentally benign production program in the textile-dyeing industry (II): a multi-objective programming approach

The ways for improving a cost-effective industrial production program described in an earlier paper primarily focused on the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) schemes within the manufacturing stage. However, industry with high demand of resources input must evolve the essential production strategies to meet the goals in an environmentally benign production program. This paper describes the method and procedure for optimizing a textile-dyeing manufacturing process with respect to the potential impact of pollution charges, resources conservation fees, production cost, inventory cost, and the limitations of production capacity simultaneously. The optimal production strategy concerning numerous screening processes of those production alternatives in terms of market demand, production technology, and resources allocation is treated as an integral part in the multi-objective decision analysis.