A decision support system for multicriteria machine selection for flexible manufacturing systems | |
| Author | Verma, Devendra Kumar |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. IE-92-33 |
| Subject(s) | Machinery in industry Flexible manufacturing systems Decision support systems |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IE-92-33 |
| Abstract | Traditional batch manufacturing always has inherent limitations. It can never cater efficiently and effectively to the needs of ever changing market where product variety and volume is neither high nor low. Flexible manufacturing systems offer the much needed flexibility in production. For this and many other reasons many manufacturing organizations are S'!Vitching over to flexible manufacturing type of production. Selection of machine tools is one of the first design problems which is complex and semi-structured. This study proposes an architecture for designing an intelligent decision support system that is intended to aid in making selection among alternative machines along multiple dimensions. A prototype decision support system for a fixed domain is developed to select a CNC turning center that is required to process a family of round parts. It assumes that justification and feasibility stages of flexible manufacturing system are over, and takes care of user's values and needs, involves heuristic knowledge from experts and uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process to find the most satisficing machine in the light of many objective as well as subjective attributes. |
| Year | 1992 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IE-92-33 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Industrial Engineering (IE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Tabucanon, Mario T. ;Batanov, Dentcho N. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Bohez, Erik L.J. |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Japan; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1992 |