Selection of a Forklift for a Cargo Company with Fuzzy BWM and Fuzzy MCRAT Methods

Material handling is a cost-intensive operation for businesses. There are several alternative types of equipment for material handling, therefore it is important to select the best one among them to decrease the cost. As there are several different alternatives and criteria which are used to assess...

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Published inAxioms Vol. 12; no. 5; p. 467
Main Authors Ulutaş, Alptekin, Topal, Ayse, Karabasevic, Darjan, Balo, Figen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2023
Subjects
Alternatives
Automation
Cargo handling
Content analysis
Cost control
Decision making
Evaluation
forklift selection
Forklift trucks
Fuzzy algorithms
fuzzy BWM
Fuzzy logic
fuzzy MCRAT
Fuzzy systems
Handling equipment
Manufacturing
Materials handling
MCDM
Methods
Multiple criteria decision making
Multiple criterion
Ranking
Risk assessment
Robots
Site selection
Trucks
Turkey
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Summary:Material handling is a cost-intensive operation for businesses. There are several alternative types of equipment for material handling, therefore it is important to select the best one among them to decrease the cost. As there are several different alternatives and criteria which are used to assess these alternatives, multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques are useful to determine the optimal material handling equipment (MHE) for businesses. In this study, fuzzy BWM for determining weights of criteria and the fuzzy Multiple Criteria Ranking by Alternative Trace (MCRAT) method have been used for ranking forklift alternatives. This study’s significance in the literature will be the creation of a novel fuzzy MCDM technique with the application of fuzzy MCRAT. Furthermore, there are relatively few studies employing the MCRAT approach in the literature; therefore, this study will provide additional data and outcomes from this method to the literature. The findings present that the forklift with the code FLT-3 performed the best, whereas the forklift with the code FLT-2 had the worst performance, according to the fuzzy MCRAT technique. According to the comparison analysis, the fuzzy MCRAT produced the same results as the fuzzy ARAS and had a few subtle differences to fuzzy MARCOS.
ISSN:2075-1680
2075-1680
DOI:10.3390/axioms12050467