Applying Fuzzy Grey Relational Analysis for Ranking the Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Purpose – Advanced manufacturing system (AMS) offers opportunities for industries to improve their technology, flexibility and profitability through a highly efficient and focused approach to manufacturing effectiveness. Selecting a proper AMS is a complicated task for the managers as it involves large tangible and intangible selection attributes. Failure to take right decision in selecting proper AMS alternative may even lead industry to losses. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to rank the AMS alternatives by using fuzzy grey relational analysis, which will help managers when choosing an appropriate AMS.Design/methodology/approach – This research proposes a multi‐attribute decision‐making (MADM) method, fuzzy grey relational analysis (FGRA), for AMS selection. The methodology is explained as follows. AMS alternatives and selection attributes will be chosen. The qualitative attributes will be converted into quantitative using fuzzy conversion scale. Then these data will be pre‐processed to normali...

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