Title: Application of analytic hierarchy process in just-in-time manufacturing systems: a review

Authors: Sanjay Sharma, Narayan Agrawal

Addresses: National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Vihar Lake, Mumbai-400087, India. ' Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering Department, Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Sector-3, Dwarka, New Delhi-110078, India

Abstract: Because of globalisation and an associated global manufacturing environment, cost competitiveness has become necessary. In order to survive, the manufacturing firms have to provide a high level of service to the customers and a high level of throughput with the lowest Work-In-Process (WIP) inventory among other factors. It often becomes difficult to achieve all the objectives by a company management. Implementation of the manufacturing techniques like just-in-time (JIT) or pull production techniques may give the solution. Selection of optimal policy among various JIT policies is another issue which requires a trade-off among performance measures. The most widely used method in the decision making is analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The present paper is devoted to a literature review concerning the applications of AHP in JIT manufacturing environment.

Keywords: JIT techniques; manufacturing systems; performance measures; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; just-in-time; pull production.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDATS.2010.034057

International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, 2010 Vol.2 No.3, pp.217 - 242

Published online: 06 Jul 2010 *

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