AHP Methodology for Partner Selection in Collaborative Design

Collaborative design is a new design style for mechanical manufacture. It can help designers of different places complete the same design project at the same time. It is an important problem to select a suitable partner for the collaborative design project from the partners. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology is presented for the partner selection, which provide a multi-criteria decision making approach for partner evaluation and selection decision. Firstly, the concept of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is introduced, which assist to acknowledge the concept. Secondly, the methodology for criteria weights is established to search for the suitable partner by fuzzy AHP method. The partner selection system is established by means of fuzzy AHP method. XML is applied for the evaluation model to explain the relationship of system. At last, a prototype is presented to demonstrate the methodology.