Decision Support System Classification and Its Application in Manufacturing Sector: A Review

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review decision support system application trend in manufacturing sector. Following the introduction of decision support system, the paper has discussed the application of decision support system in manufacturing sector and identifies the trend in term of decision support system types and their application types. In year 2011 until 2015, the most preferred decision support system were developed by using the model application. It also been found that, most of the developed decision support system are used to support evaluation activities in manufacturing operations. This review provides research trend on decision support system for the recent five years (2011 -2015) in the context of decision support system application in manufacturing industry.

Decision Support System for the Production of Miscanthus and Willow Briquettes

“…In recent years, there has been a rapid development of research on DSS. This is confirmed by the rapidly growing number of publications [29,30].…”

“…DSS is composed of three basic components, which are: the database management subsystem, the model base management subsystem and the dialog generation and management subsystem (user interface), which handles the interaction of the user with the system [28,30]. DSSs are used in many areas, e.g., IT, production engineering, transport, biosystem engineering and many more.…”

Decision support systems classification in industry

“…Scope of Use: Enterprise-wide DSS and Desktop-wide DSS [17]. Orientation: Text-oriented DSS, Database-oriented DSS, Rule-oriented DSS, Solver-oriented DSS, Spreadsheet-oriented DSS, Compound-oriented DSS) [12]. Focus Area: Data Focus, Model Focus and Knowledge Focus [12].…”

“…This also allows for the decision makers to establish models that support the analysis of the data and information. The compound DSS is a category of DSS that involves different orientation-based DSS in combination in its application [12]. Another consideration of DSS classification that utilizes orientation was expanded on by Hasan et al [12] with the research by Alter [33] as a basis in the classification of DSS into different categories: 1.…”

“…Optimization models 7. The classification of Alter (1980) was then integrated by Hasan et al [12] into two specific orientations: A. Data-oriented DSS B. Model-oriented DSS In doing the classification into two specific orientations, the perspectives argued that data analysis systems and file drawer systems form part of data-oriented DSS while accounting models, representational models, and optimization models form part of model-oriented decision support systems. Analysis information system is considered to be part of both model-oriented decision support systems and data-oriented decision support systems thus being located in the intersection of these two DSS orientations [12].…”