Abstract:

The selection of the machine and equipment is very important in today's production companies to realize the processes from raw material to shipment quickly, safely, environmentally friendly and effectively. Business managers have to choose from many alternatives when purchasing machinery and equipment. Company officials can make wrong decisions when they purchase the machine and equipment only taking price as an evaluation criteria. Stacker machines are required in many stages from production to shipment in production firms. In this study, it has been aimed to select the best fully automatic stacker machine for a production firm by using the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions) method, which is one of the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. The study has been carried out in a company in the textile sector in Turkey. In the study, 5 different fully automatic stacker machines have been evaluated according to price, lifting capacity, height of lifting, lifting speed with load, speed of lowering with load and movement speed evaluation criteria. As a result of the application of the TOPSIS method, full automatic green stacker machines have been ranked.

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