A Decision Analysis for Production Layout Selection

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Rooygari, Homa | 2013

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 45370 (01)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Industrial Engineering
Advisor(s): Eshghi, Kourosh
Abstract:
Studying the major effects of facility layout on competitive abilities has been a field of interest for researchers. Selection of production layout is amongst the most important decisions because it has a major role on the efficiency of a company like the ability of quick respond to customers’ diverse needs.
In this study we intend to obtain a ranking of production layouts considering agility in production which leads to responding quickly to the diversity of demand. Considering the nature of a decision making problem, we use PSI method. This is a multi attribute decision making method in which there is no need for considering the relative importance between the attributes. The main purpose of our PSI model is to implement a structure for ranking the product layouts by considering agility in a mass customization environment. We show that the PSI method and the proposed implementation structure has a better time complexity but the same quality in results, compared to the previous decision making method used for the studied case
Keywords:
Agility ; Facility Layout ; Preference Selection Index ; Production Layout Selection ; Mass Customization ; Decision Making Analysis

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