Article ID: | iaor20122908 |
Volume: | 62 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 1034 |
End Page Number: | 1045 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Pai Ping-Feng, Hung Kuo-Chen, Lin Kuo-Ping, Ho Hung-Pin |
Keywords: | decision |
Material selection is a very important issue for an electronics company as it includes many qualitative or quantification factors. The material selection problem is associated with design and manufacturing problems which have been widely investigated. This study develops a hybrid fuzzy decision‐making model which combines the fuzzy weight average (FWA) with the fuzzy inference system (FIS) for material substitution selection in the electronics industry. FWA is employed to select a substitute material in an uncertain environment, while FIS is used for reasoning purposes. FWA with