TY - JOUR
T1 - A hierarchical AHP/DEA methodology for the facilities layout design problem
AU - Yang, Taho
AU - Kuo, Chunwei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan under grant no. NSC89-2213-E006-142. We are also grateful to two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions that improved the presentation of this paper. We thank Richard Johnson for proofreading the writing style.
PY - 2003/5/16
Y1 - 2003/5/16
N2 - Layout design often has a significant impact on the performance of a manufacturing or service industry system and is usually a multiple-objective problem. Neither an algorithmic nor a procedural layout design methodology is usually effective in solving a practical design problem. This paper proposed a hierarchical analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to solve a plant layout design problem. A computer-aided layout-planning tool was used to generate a considerable numbers of layout alternatives as well as to generate quantitative decision-making unit (DMU) outputs. The qualitative performance measures were weighted by AHP. DEA was then used to solve the multiple-objective layout problem. Empirical illustrations from a practical case study illustrated the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.
AB - Layout design often has a significant impact on the performance of a manufacturing or service industry system and is usually a multiple-objective problem. Neither an algorithmic nor a procedural layout design methodology is usually effective in solving a practical design problem. This paper proposed a hierarchical analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to solve a plant layout design problem. A computer-aided layout-planning tool was used to generate a considerable numbers of layout alternatives as well as to generate quantitative decision-making unit (DMU) outputs. The qualitative performance measures were weighted by AHP. DEA was then used to solve the multiple-objective layout problem. Empirical illustrations from a practical case study illustrated the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00251-5
DO - 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00251-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037449044
SN - 0377-2217
VL - 147
SP - 128
EP - 136
JO - European Journal of Operational Research
JF - European Journal of Operational Research
IS - 1
ER -