• Title of article

    Selection of industrial robots using the Polygons area method

  • Author/Authors

    Honarmande Azimi، Mortaza نويسنده Department of Management, College of Management, Economics & Accounting, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran , , Taghizadeh، Houshang نويسنده Associate Professor, Department of Management, College of Management, Economics & Accounting, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran , , Fegh-hi Farahmand، Nasser نويسنده Associate Professor, Department of Management, College of Management, Economics & Accounting, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran , , Pourmahmoud، Jafar نويسنده Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran ,

  • Issue Information
    دوفصلنامه با شماره پیاپی 19 سال 2014
  • Pages
    16
  • From page
    631
  • To page
    646
  • Abstract
    Selection of robots from the several proposed alternatives is a very important and tedious task. Decision makers are not limited to one method and several methods have been proposed for solving this problem. This study presents Polygons Area Method (PAM) as a multi attribute decision making method for robot selection problem. In this method, the maximum polygons area obtained from the attributes of an alternative robot on the radar chart is introduced as a decision-making criterion. The results of this method are compared with other typical multiple attribute decision-making methods (SAW, WPM, TOPSIS, and VIKOR) by giving two examples. To find similarity in ranking given by different methods, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients are obtained for different pairs of MADM methods. It was observed that the introduced method is in good agreement with other well-known MADM methods in the robot selection problem.
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
  • Serial Year
    2014
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
  • Record number

    1367661