Manufacturing Complexity Analysis with Fuzzy AHP

Abstract

Budgeting, resource allocation, and planning in manufacturing systems are important issues that can be managed by complexity measures. Manufacturing processes have several primary areas of complexity that may not be measured precisely due to uncertain situations. Therefore, this study reports a Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) model for evaluating the process complexity that takes into account uncertain situations and manufacturing process technology. The model can rank manufacturing processes based on their relative complexities. An illustrative example for several processes is demonstrated to present the application of the model.