An Integrated FAHP-PROMETHEE Approach For Selecting The Best Flexible Manufacturing System

This paper proposes an integrated approach to the decision-making problem that combines the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and the Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) with the purpose of Evaluation of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with a Group Decision Support System (GDSS). The FAHP is used to determine the weights for each criterion and PROMETHEE is applied to get the final ranking and GAIA plane is used to highlight the conflicts, the similarities and independences among the criteria and the DMs. Finally, a numerical example proposed in this paper determines the most appropriate FMS alternative.

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