In order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. This paper aimed at ranking 7Ms (Management, Man power, Marketing, Material, Machinery, Methods and Money) and their sub-criteria of production in Iran. By improvin...

using the effective management tools that are relevant tothe organization’s needs for excellence has become so important for thecompanies to improve their performances and then increase customersatisfaction and gain market shares. quality function deployment is anefficient and powerful tool in design, development, and planning of products.the main function of quality function deployment is conv...

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis is a dimension-reduction technique that is used to estimate the coordinates of a set of objects. However, not every criterion used in multidimensional scaling is equally and precisely weighted in the real world. To address this issue, we use fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to determine the weighting of subjective/perceptive judgments for each crit...

In order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. This paper aimed at ranking 7Ms (Management, Man power, Marketing, Material, Machinery, Methods and Money) and their sub-criteria of production in Iran. By improvin...

Given the current reliability allocation problem of wind turbine generator systems, based on method series a model an improved fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is proposed. A three-scale standard adopted to comprehensively consider six influencing factors, such as technical level, working environment and importance, by determining comprehensive weight combined with FAHP entropy method. I...

Flood is one of the most destructive natural hazards which impose vast costs in order to compensate its effects, especially in areas where there are manifestations of human development (such as cities). Urban development, particularly in the margins of rivers, has increased flood damages in recent decades. The aim of this study was to develop flood hazard maps of Birjand plain based on analyses...

In recent years, the rising of customers’ awareness and spending power has led to the growth of the customized products. The traditional enterprise-led products are unable to meet the customers’ needs. Nowadays, the enterprises have to put the emphasis on the customers’ preferences and products must be made to satisfy the customers’ various needs. In this research, we develop a set of Fuzzy Int...

abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...