MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING APPROACH FOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER SELECTION USING FUZZY AHP-FUZZY TOPSIS

Abstract

In this study, a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making approach is proposed to select an industrial engineer among tencandidates in a manufacturing environment. The industrial engineer selection problem is a special case of the personalselection problem. This problem, which has hierarchical structure of criteria and many decision makers, contains manycriteria. The evaluation process of decision makers also includes ambiguous parameters. The fuzzy AHP is used to determinethe weights for evaluation criteria. The consistencies of pair-wise comparisons matrices are controlled and a crisp overallperformance value is obtained for each candidate based on the Best Non-fuzzy Performance Value. The sensitivity of thecandidates’ overall performance values is analyzed by taking into account both the weight of decision makers and the weightsof basis criteria. The candidates are also evaluated by fuzzy TOPSIS method and the result obtained by fuzzy AHP iscompared with the result achieved by fuzzy TOPSIS.