A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK MODEL OF CUTTING TOOL SELECTION FOR GREEN MANUFACTURING AND ITS APPLICATION

Green manufacturing (GM in short) is beneficial to the alleviation of environment burdens. The optimization selection of tool is an important approach to improving environmental performance of cutting machining. The objective factors of decision-making problems for traditional tool selection are time, quality and cost. Based on the main idea of environmental consciousness, a decision-making framework model of GM is proposed; a multi-objective decision-making model for cutting tool selection is put forward. The objectives include Time (T), Quality (Q), Cost (C), Resources (R) and Environmental impact (E), where T aims to minimize the produce time, Q means to maximize the quality, C means to minimize the cost, R means to minimize the resource consumption and E means to minimize the environment impact respectively. Each objective is analyzed in detail and application of the Fuzzy Analysis Algorithm in the decision-making is discussed. A case study in which a practical decision-making problem of cutting tool ...