Application of failure mode and effect analysis in manufacturing industry - an integrated approach with FAHP-fuzzy TOPSIS and FAHP-fuzzy VIKOR

Author(s):  
D. Saravanakumar ◽  
G. Sakthivel ◽  
T. Muthuramalingam
2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rishabh Rathore ◽  
J. J. Thakkar ◽  
J. K. Jha

PurposeThis paper investigates the risks involved in the Indian foodgrain supply chain (FSC) and proposes risk mitigation taxonomy to enable decision making.Design/methodology/approachThis paper used failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) for risk estimation. In the traditional FMEA, risk priority number (RPN) is evaluated by multiplying the probability of occurrence, severity and detection. Because of some drawbacks of the traditional FMEA, instead of calculating RPN, this paper prioritizes the FSC risk factors using fuzzy VIKOR. VIKOR is a multiple attribute decision-making technique which aims to rank FSC risk factors with respect to criteria.FindingsThe findings indicate that “technological risk” has a higher impact on the FSC, followed by natural disaster, communication failure, non-availability of procurement centers, malfunctioning in PDS and inadequate storage facility. Sensitivity analysis is performed to check the robustness of the results.Practical implicationsThe outcomes of the study can help in deriving detailed risk mitigation strategy and risk mitigation taxonomy for the improved resilience of FSC.Originality/valueSpecifically, this research investigates the risks for foodgrains supply chain system for a developing country such as India, an area which has received limited attention in the present literature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (18) ◽  
pp. 8801-8814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Ping Hu ◽  
Xiao-Yue You ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Hu-Chen Liu

Author(s):  
Sasikumar P. ◽  
Vimal K. E. K.

Green supplier selection is considered to be one of the prominent strategic ways to determine the success of whole supply chain in recent times. In this chapter, fuzzy VIKOR and fuzzy TOPSIS methods are used to select the suitable green supplier under fuzzy environment. The green supplier evaluation approach is demonstrated with a real-world case study involving textile manufacturing industry in southern part of India concerning 11 foremost evaluation criteria that the company has determined to select the most suitable supplier. The compromising solution for the four decision makers in Fuzzy VIKOR corroborate with the compromising solution of Fuzzy TOPSIS method. The application of proposed method in the case organization helps to identify the appropriate supplier systematically. The result offer useful insight for the managers to select the suitable supplier to improve the environmental image of the organization.


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