Decision-making Methods

Abstract

Achieving more preferable product manufacturing depends on obtaining more preferable decision-making results. The supporting technologies explained in Chap. 5 have been developed and implemented to enable the people involved in product manufacturing to exercise more sophisticated and insightful consideration and judgment of various factors and details. The optimization technologies for product manufacturing explained in Chap. 6 have been developed and advanced so that optimized product designs that provide higher satisfaction of a variety of needs can be more efficiently and logically produced. The combination of these technologies are applied to decision-making concerning every aspect of product manufacturing. This chapter describes fundamental decision-making methods for obtaining more satisfactory decision-making results. The use of decision-making support systems and optimization methods improves the likelihood of obtaining more preferable results, compared with results obtained by simply relying upon experience and intuition. Furthermore, the methods described here enable thorough evaluation and examination of the decision-making processes as well as the obtained design results, so that even more preferable results can be developed over time.