Abstract:

Abstract enNowadays, digital and technological developments have a great effect on consumer behavior. Product life cycles shorten with recent technological changes and customer demands became more sophisticated and varied. In order to gain sustainable competitive advantage, profitability is not only enough, but also productivity, flexibility and quality in manufacturing process are required. The decision-making processes in the production environment are ought to be operated well in order to keep up with these changes. Since, the selection of suitable machine improves the productivity and flexibility of the manufacturing process, machine selection problem is one of the critical decision making process in today’s production environment. Therefore, determining the most suitable machine helps firm to provide competitiveness in the market. The purpose of this study is to help decision makers by determining the best criteria for saving money and time. In this study, we deal with strategic machine selection problem in order to determine industry specific machine selection criteria in a cable manufacturing company. To evaluate the critical machine selection criteria, a fuzzy DEMATEL method is developed and fuzzy PROMETHEE method is used to select the most suitable machine in the cable company.

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