A review of applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process in operations management

Subramanian, Nachiappan; Ramanathan, Ramakrishnan

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.03.036

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“…Review articles illustrated the applicability of AHP to a wide variety of real problems with cases in different sectors beyond simple choice problems. Pohekar and Ramachandran, (2004) analysed the applicability of multi criteria decision making methods in 90 published articles related to sustainable energy planning and found that AHP is the most popular method compared with PROMETHEE and ELECTRE (Subramanian and Ramanathan, 2012).…”

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Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Abdulrahman

Subramanian

Liu

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Remanufacturing is a sustainable and proven profitable practice in the western world.Research on remanufacturing practices is relatively unexploited in China, despite being the "global factory" and both the world's largest automobile manufacturer and vehicle market.The increasing amount of automotive output and End-of-Life vehicles (ELVs) in China provides Chinese auto-parts companies with significant potential for environmentally conscious manufacturing and product recovery. Using case studies, we have investigated the status of remanufacturing practices, key determinants for strategic decision making to remanufacture in-house, outsource remanufacturing and/or not to engage in remanufacturing in Chinese auto parts firms using an analytical hierarchy process (AHP). This study suggests that Chinese firms are keen to adopt remanufacturing practice in-house compared to outsourcing despite a lack of technical and managerial capabilities.Key words: Remanufacturing, automotive, China, strategic decision making, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) INTRODUCTIONThe unprecedented and sometimes wasteful use of the environment as the natural provider of resources and sink for discarded end-of-life/end-of-use products and waste is proving to be unsustainable. There is increasing realization that manufacturing needs to produce more with less and different raw materials, to be ethical and sustainable. Achieving this will require materials wastage to be reduced and production to more closely match demand. This is why manufacturing firms, especially original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, are under increasing pressure from stakeholders, including regulators, customers and employees to produce ethically, reuse/recycle, remanufacture, and/or to safely discard 3 their waste in accordance with the absorptive and regenerative capacity of the planet (Barker and Zabinsky, 2011).Of the many sustainable strategies, tools and techniques developed over the years aimed at improving productivity and economic longevity of manufacturing businesses, remanufacturing plays an important role. Remanufacturing has resulted in increased profits and market share for manufacturers in Western countries (Jayaraman and Luo, 2007;Giannetti, 2012). Remanufacturing further benefits businesses in terms of cost saving from reduced resource requirements, through assets recovery and reusing/recycling, cost savings from not using landfills, expanded product life cycle, increased employment rate and improved brand image (Sarkis, 2010;Kapetanopoulou and Tagaras, 2011;Zhang, et al., 2011).The automotive industry is one of the leading industries in remanufacturing and product recovery strategy, with 70% of all remanufacturing companies being in the automotive sector (Steinhilper, 2011;Zhang, et al., 2011). Furthermore, of all major products that are being The major motivation for this study is to (i) develop a remanufacturing decision-making framework for the Chinese auto-parts manufacturers' strategic decisions to either engage in the rem...

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Section: Analytic Hierarchy Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Abdulrahman

Subramanian

Liu

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The studies indicate encapsulation promotes efficiency and complexity. Inheritance has a significant influence on the efficiency, complexity, reusability and testability or maintainability [7].…”

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Usability Evaluation of Software Testing Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

He¹,

Wang²

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Machinery, Materials and Computing Technology

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Abstract. In software product development process, software usability testing is essential and must be carried out in the actual work tasks and operating environment of the user. Expand the availability of this article assessment of software testing based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP), it qualitative and quantitative indicators in a unified model, to break down complex problems into component factors, in turn govern the relationship between these factors by grouping formed hierarchical structure. Determine the relative importance of various factors in the hierarchy by pairwise comparison approach. Then determine the overall decision-makers to determine the relative importance of the decision-making program overall ranking. AHP decision-makers can make decisions directly, thus greatly improving the effectiveness of software testing to assess the availability, reliability and feasibility.

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“…This paper introduces FAHP to fuzzy processing the Trojan behavior and quantitative analysis. The advantages of FAHP for AHP are reflected in the fuzzy characteristics of the matrix, to some extent it simplifies the complexity of the relative importance in the determination of the target, and the effective use of fuzzy judgment matrix to realize the decision-making from qualitative to quantitative and convenient and quick transformation, the structure of fuzzy judgment matrix can solve the consistency problem of the judgment matrix [10]. The working procedure of FAHP is to establish the hierarchy structure (As shown in Figure 2), constructing triangular fuzzy number reciprocal judgment matrix, fuzzy weight calculation of single level factor, build a possibility degree matrix, calculate the sort vector of the probability degree matrix, finally, the overall hierarchy sorting.…”

Section: Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process(fahp)mentioning

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Trojan Behavior Analysis Based on FAHP Improved Algorithms

Liu¹,

Ma²,

Liu³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 3rd International Conference on Machinery, Materials and Information Technology Applications

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Abstract. In the paper, we modelling for behavior of Trojan based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) improved algorithms, an efficacious analysis method which good at behavioral assessment, and has been applied in many fields of malicious code analysis. Based on the model, the harmfulness of software behavior between Trojan software and application software is analyzed quantitatively. Different by different Trojans corresponding behavior of hazardous different premise, judge the harmfulness of Trojan. Numerical analysis results demonstrate that the improved algorithms gain good effect. Compared with the results obtained by other methods, the conclusion of this paper is reliable and practical, and it has opened up a new situation for the work of judging Trojan.

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A review of applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process in operations management

Cited by 480 publications

References 305 publications

Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Usability Evaluation of Software Testing Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Trojan Behavior Analysis Based on FAHP Improved Algorithms

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