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A Multi-Criteria Assessment of Manufacturing Cell Performance Using the AHP Method

Authors :
Zuzana Soltysova
Vladimir Modrak
Julia Nazarejova
Source :
Applied Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 2, p 854 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2022.

Abstract

Research of manufacturing cell design problems is still pertinent today, because new manufacturing strategies, such as mass customization, call for further improvement of the fundamental performance of cellular manufacturing systems. The main scope of this article is to find the optimal cell design(s) from alternative design(s) by multi-criteria evaluation. For this purpose, alternative design solutions are mutually compared by using the selected performance criteria, namely operational complexity, production line balancing rate, and makespan. Then, multi-criteria decision analysis based on the analytic hierarchy process method is used to show that two more-cell solutions better satisfy the determined criteria of manufacturing cell design performance than three less-cell solutions. The novelty of this research approach refers to the use of the modification of Saaty’s scale for the comparison of alternatives in pairs based on the objective assessment of the designs. Its benefit lies in the exactly enumerated values of the selected criteria, according to which the points from the mentioned scale are assigned to the alternatives.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20763417
Volume :
12
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Applied Sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.78d749133b4646299d4bb444ed3324b9
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020854