Selection of industrial robots using compromise ranking method

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 3-15

  Athawale, Vijay Manikrao ^a   Chatterjee, Prasenjit ^b   Chakraborty, Shankar ^c  

^a Government Polytechnic   (India)

^b MCKV INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Industrial robot; MCDM; Multi criteria decision making; Selection; VIKOR method

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MANUFACTURE;

DECISION MAKERS; MCDM; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; RANKING METHODS; REAL-TIME MANUFACTURING; SELECTION; VIKOR METHOD;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84860729032     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2012.046651     Document Type: Article

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