The aim of this chapter is to investigate the decision process of manufacturing systems (MSs) under uncertain conditions. The decision process needs a systematic approach to structure the system requirements and highlight the management preferences while considering vague criteria. In order to establish a suitable empirical approach for the decision process compatible with the current/future re...

Buyer decision processes are the decision-making processes undertaken by consumers about a potential market transaction before, during, and after the purchase of a product or service. More generally, decision-making is the cognitive processes of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. How many evaluation criteria a consumer will use, what different types of criteria will ...

This paper describes an approach, based on the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) that assists decision makers or manufacturing engineers determining the most appropriate manufacturing process to be employd in manufacturing of composite automotive bumper beam at the early stage of product development process. There are 5 types of processes under consideration namely injection moulding (IM), res...

In today’s competitive educational environment, the quality of undergraduate education is ever more recognised as a fundamental factor in gaining competitive advantage. The evaluation and improvement of the quality of undergraduate education in higher education is an important issue of on-going concern. The aim of this article is to focus on an automated management and evaluation system to effi...

one of the great challenges in the processing of materials using equal channel angular pressing (ecap) is the high forming forces required to produce large shear deformation in the material. researchers show that the friction forces between the die and the sample constitute a great part of the total forming forces. recently, ultrasonic vibrations are successfully implemented into the ecap proce...

there are mainly two methods of deep drawing analysis; experimental and analytical/numerical. experimental analysis can be useful in analyzing the process to determine the process parameters that produce a defect free product, and the analytical/numerical modeling can be used to model and analyze the process through all stages of deformation. this approach is less time consuming and more econom...

Title Process analytical technology (PAT) needs and applications in the bioprocess industry Review Abstract Process analytical technologies have been applied to manufacturing processes (pulp and paper, chemical and petroleum) for decades. Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has, however, redefined the phrase and implemented it into an initiative focusing on improving several asp...

In many complex decision-making problems, the decision information provided by the decision makers is often imprecise or uncertain due to time limit, lack of data, or the decision makers’ limited attention and information processing capabilities. Decision-making in a fuzzy environment means a decision process in which the goals and/or the constraints, but not necessarily the system under contro...