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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 966-980.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2022.000130

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  • 收稿日期:2021-09-14 接受日期:2022-07-25 出版日期:2023-08-18 发布日期:2023-08-28

A multi-enterprise quality function deployment paradigm with unstructured decision-making in linguistic contexts

Jian’gang PENG1(), Guang XIA2,*(), Baoqun SUN2(), Shaojie WANG2()   

  1. 1 Intelligent Manufacturing Institute, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
    2 Institute of Automotive Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • Received:2021-09-14 Accepted:2022-07-25 Online:2023-08-18 Published:2023-08-28
  • Contact: Guang XIA E-mail:peng_jiangang@sina.com;xiaguang008@hfut.edu.cn;sbq1956@sina.com;wsj73@aliyun.con
  • About author:
    PENG Jian’gang was born in 1970. He received his Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering at the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering in 2016, Hefei University of Technology, China. He is currently an associate research fellow. His main research interests include production planning and scheduling, uncertain linguistic terms, and fuzzy decision-making. E-mail: peng_jiangang@sina.com

    XIA Guang was born in 1983. He received his Ph.D. degree in vehicle engineering from Hefei University of Technology. He is an associate research fellow in Hefei University of Technology. His research interest is vehicle dynamics control. E-mail: xiaguang008@hfut.edu.cn

    SUN Baoqun was born in 1956. He received his B.S. degree from Hefei University of Technology. He is a researcher in Hefei University of Technology. His research interest is vehicle automatic transmission control. E-mail: sbq1956@sina.com

    WANG Shaojie was born in 1973. He received his B.S. degree from Hefei University of Technology. He is a researcher in Hefei University of Technology. His research interest is vehicle automatic transmission control. E-mail: wsj73@aliyun.con
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0700605), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51875151), and Hefei Municipal Natural Science Foundation (2021029).

Abstract:

This paper presents an operational framework of unstructured decision-making approach involving quality function deployment (QFD) in an uncertain linguistic context. Firstly, QFD is extended to the multi-enterprise paradigm in a real-world manufacturing environment. Secondly, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs), which facilitate the management and handling of information equivocality, are designed to construct a house of quality (HoQ) in the product planning process. The technique of computing with words is applied to bridge the gap between mechanisms of the human brain and machine processes with fuzzy linguistic term sets. Thirdly, a multi-enterprise QFD pattern is formulated as an unstructured decision-making problem for alternative infrastructure project selection in a manufacturing organization. The inter-relationships of cooperative partners are directly matched with a back propagation neural network (BPNN) to construct the multi-enterprise manufacturing network. The resilience of the manufacturing organization is considered by formulating an outranking method on the basis of HFLTSs to decide on infrastructure project alternatives. Finally, a real-world example, namely, the prototype manufacturing of an automatic transmission for a vehicle, is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed decision-making approach.

Key words: decision-making, quality function deployment (QFD), uncertainty, fuzzy set