This paper proposes a Fuzzy Group Decision Approach for making strategic decisions about knowledge management adoption. Most SMEs are suffering because of low profits caused by hyper competition and OEM dead-end. Moreover, since the middle of 2008, the financial tsunami has caused serious damage to the global economy. They lack the financial and systematic basis to introduce knowledge managemen...

the purpose of this study is identification and barrier analysis for green supply chain management implementation in sirjan's golgohar using fuzzy topsis technique and fuzzy dematel technique. at first, in this study barriers for green supply chain management are identified through literature and survey with experts and the priority processing is doing with fuzzy topsis technique. this study is...

freshwater resources represent around 3% of all water on earth, and less than 1% of that is available. consideringcurrent conditions, as well as future predictions of need, freshwater resources cannot meet human needs. thus,sweetening of the brackish water can be performed to provide freshwater for human use. solar energy, because ofiran's climatic conditions, may be used for sweetening the bra...

During the drastic changing process of construction industry in China, program management has been given significant attention. Due to complexity programs, selecting competent managers is crucially important its success. Therefore, based on a comprehensive literature review, this paper combines regret theory and Fuzzy-DEMATEL method develop multi-attribute model for manager selection. Firstly, ...

Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) Systems as standard software packages have been welcomed in most of industries. Although implementation of these systems needs considering issues to achieve the success and planned aspiration levels. In order to identifying and classifying these issues as ERP Critical Success Factors (CSFs), various researches have been done and the importances of these factor...

The rapid increasing number of automobile products has brought great convenience to people’s living, but it also caused serious environmental issues, waste resources and energy shortage during its whole lifecycle. Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) refers the company’s responsibility avoid damage natural environment derived from corporate social (CSR), plays an important role in solvi...

maintenance is one of the systems which can play an essential role in the success of manufacturing and services systems. one of the most maintenance innovative approaches is agile maintenance. based on this approach, organizations integrate maintenance concepts with agility features such as: flexibility, agile and fast move, etc and also are trying to provide one hundred percent preparing equip...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is an analysis tool for identifying and preventing flaws or defects in products during the design and process planning stage, preventing the repeated occurrence of problems, reducing the effects of these problems, enhancing product quality and reliability, saving costs, and improving competitiveness. However, FMEA can only analyze one influence factor ac...