An analytic hierarchy process approach to the choice of manufacturing plant layout

Yahuza, Abdulhamid; Kochhar, A. K.; Khan, Muhammad Nadeem

doi:10.1243/0954405991516868

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“…According to these requirements, the office equipment, the environmental conditions, the software, and the work organization are addressed as four main elements of the work system. An alternative approach to select a suitable type of layout using AHP method is presented [13].…”

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The evaluation of appropriate office layout design with MCDM techniques

2020

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Office layout design is pertinent in terms of ergonomics to obtain a sustainable workspace. There are five workplace evaluation parameters to be considered, namely successiveness, work within the limits of biological ability, work within the limits of sustainable work performance, work within the social limits, and work fulfilling psychological expectations and individual satisfaction of being able to exercise all abilities. In ergonomics, job satisfaction is an essential matter for an employee to perform a task productively. Since the office design mostly affects the worker's performance and health at the same time, it is a requirement to create sustainable workplace. Multi-criteria decision-making methods are not only broadly used in different fields and disciplines, but are also considered to be an essential field in ergonomics. This paper aimed to propose a method in order to analyze and compare the office layout design with the methods of analytical hierarchy process, elimination and choice translating reality, and permutation method. The criteria in this paper are established in a hierarchical order by employing these methods. All in all, office alternatives are compared, and the overall results are examined.

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2020

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“…Meng et al (2004) introduced a layout system as a reconfigurable layout problem. The main issues of selecting a suitable type of layout for components of a manufacturing plant were analysed International Journal of Production Research 481 (Abdul-Hamid et al 1999). Khan and Gwee (1997) introduced production flow analysis to convert a functional (process) layout to a cellular layout.…”

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DFSME: design for sustainable manufacturing enterprises (an economic viewpoint)

Garbie¹

2013

International Journal of Production Research

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Design for sustainable manufacturing enterprise (DFSME) is considered to be a new ideologue regarding survival of manufacturing enterprise and it can also be considered as one of the most important solutions to deal with the existing global financial crisis. The DFSME is a systemic approach that simultaneously determines the aspects of sustainability and how they can be aggregated taking into consideration the globalisation issues. The problem addressed in this paper is how to present the concepts of sustainability to guide manufacturing enterprises analysts and designers with the most effective aspects for analysing sustainability. These aspects are: international issues; contemporary issues; innovative products; reconfigurable manufacturing systems; manufacturing strategies; business models; flexible organisation management; manufacturing strategies and performance measurements. Based on these aspects, the sustainable model will be analysed and presented through covering all aspects of sustainable manufacturing enterprise and the sustainability assessment will be measured. The ultimate goal of this paper is to consider the needs of manufacturing enterprise throughout most of the world to be sustainable as well as to be globalised enterprises. This analysis shows that the DFSME is a very large task and should be taken into consideration as one aspect of the next industrial revolution.

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“…Oeltijenbruns et al (1995) proposed four fundamental steps of decision making for investment alternatives in order to support decisions for higher levels of automation/technology in manufacturing processes. The AHP was applied for selecting plant layout configuration such as group technology, transfer lines and functional layout with respect to the defined objectives: such as flexibility, volume and cost (Abdul-Hamid et al, 1999). Maier-Speredelozzi and Hu (2002) used the AHP for the selection of the most appropriate configuration of a manufacturing system with consideration of multiple performance criteria.…”

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Layout configuration selection for reconfigurable manufacturing systems using the fuzzy AHP

Abdi

2009

IJMTM

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Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) is designed to rapidly respond to changing market requirements. The system operates on various products grouped into families according to their operational requirements. Therefore, an RMS may require different layout configurations while switching from one product to the other. This paper investigates the criteria, which can influence layout configuration selection. In particular, an Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) model is developed to structure the criteria for the selection of the most appropriate layout for each configuration stage. The criteria are indicated based on the layout reconfigurability, cost, quality and reliability. The alternatives are identified based on the serial/parallel configurations for the set of specified machines. Due to dealing with vague data in the decision process, the uncertain criteria are characterised by triangular fuzzy sets. The integrated fuzzy AHP is analysed within the boundary limits of the fuzzy criteria through a case study.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Abdi, M.R. (2009) 'Layout configuration selection for reconfigurable manufacturing systems using the fuzzy AHP', Int. He has several years of teaching, research and industrial experience in various universities and manufacturing companies. His specialist areas are operations management, manufacturing system design, decision support systems, Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), Analytical Network Process (ANP), information management, computer modelling and simulation and fuzzy logic.

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An analytic hierarchy process approach to the choice of manufacturing plant layout

Cited by 38 publications

References 10 publications

The evaluation of appropriate office layout design with MCDM techniques

The evaluation of appropriate office layout design with MCDM techniques

DFSME: design for sustainable manufacturing enterprises (an economic viewpoint)

Layout configuration selection for reconfigurable manufacturing systems using the fuzzy AHP

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