Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, 1997:
Proceedings of the Seventh International FAIM Conference

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-089-4

ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-442-7

MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1997.830
pages 859-866

Abstract

Evaluating investments in automated technologies is a complex task due to modeling of a continuously changing economic and manufacturing environment, and due to the evaluation of a large set of economic, technical, and strategic factors. This paper describes a process by which complex integrated manufacturing systems can be systematically evaluated and presents a set of attributes for use in such comparisons.