Title :
Evaluation of Worker Productivity Improvement Using ISM and FAHP
Author :
Cheng, Y.L. ; Chiu, A.S.F. ; Tseng, M.L. ; Lin, Y.H.
Author_Institution :
Wu-Feng Inst. of Technol., Chiayi
Abstract :
In recent years, many printed circuit board manufacturing firms have looked upon worker productivity improvement as the means by which they can improve their firm performance. This paper uses the critical factors and interpretive structural modeling to determine the structure of analytical hierarchical process model in fuzzy environment. Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process-based methodology was used to tackle the different decision criteria in a hierarchical structure in the improvement of worker productivity. The findings advocate that these manufacturing firms would thereby the hierarchical model to setup the priorities of the worker productivity improvement. And best practice, reduce unit cost and physical working environment are the crucial sub-factors for worker productivity improvement.
Keywords :
cost reduction; decision making; ergonomics; fuzzy set theory; printed circuit manufacture; productivity; FAHP; ISM; decision criteria; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; interpretive structural modeling; printed circuit board manufacturing firms; unit cost reduction; worker productivity improvement; Best practices; Costs; Employment; Ergonomics; Job design; Product safety; Productivity; Psychology; Virtual manufacturing; Workstations; Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; interpretive structural modeling; worker productivity;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1529-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1529-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419161