Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Methods in Additive Manufacturing: The State of the Art

Multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) refers to making preference decisions via assessing a finite number of pre-specified alternatives under multiple and usually conflicting attributes. Many problems in the field additive manufacturing (AM) are essentially MADM or can be converted into problems. Recently, variety methods have been applied solve AM. This generates series interesting questions: What is general trend this research topic from perspective published articles every year? Which journals most on topic? cited? AM? main strengths weaknesses each method used? used one field? specific AM tackled using methods? issues existing for that need addressed future studies? To approach these questions, review presented paper. Firstly, an overview was carried out based methods. A statistical analysis then made aspects journal articles, methods, solved After that, application discussed. Finally, findings summarised.