Application of Strategic Decision Making to Design for Manufacture

A Decision - Support Tool for Strategic Decision - Making in Biopharmaceutical Manufacture

The need for software tools to support decision-m aking relating to biomanufacture is becoming increasingly critical in order to accelerate the time-to-market and reduce costs. The main objective o f this thesis is the design and implementation o f a decision-support tool that integrates both the business and process perspectives o f biopharmaceutical manufacture to aid the evaluation o f manuf...

Application of Fuzzy Decision-Making to Facility Layout Planning

This research proposes a vigorous methodology based on the fuzzy set theory to improve the facility layout process. Using natural language, the fuzzy set theory is an appropriate tool for controlling complex systems such as facility planning. The closeness rating between departments in a plant depends on qualitative and quantitative factors. Some of these factors may have a greater effect on th...

Strategic decision-making in NPD projects according to risk: Application to satellites design projects

In this paper we present a method for making strategic decisions in New Product Development (NPD) projects based on risks. In NPD the complexity of the process depends both on the nature of the design problem and the difficulties associated with managing the project (activities, risks). To design a complex product several different teams, having different competencies, work on the project. Not ...

Application of Fuzzy Decision-Making to Facility Layout Planning

This research proposes a vigorous methodology based on the fuzzy set theory to improve the facility layout process. Using natural language, the fuzzy set theory is an appropriate tool for controlling complex systems such as facility planning. The closeness rating between departments in a plant depends on qualitative and quantitative factors. Some of these factors may have a greater effect on th...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making