In real world multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem, it is tough to solve a decision matrix with vague and imprecise data. The degree of impreciseness depends on the kind of data available. | Interval valued multi criteria decision making methods for the selection of flexible manufacturing system International Journal of Data and Network Science 3 2019 349 358 Contents lists available at GrowingScience International Journal of Data and Network Science homepage ijds Interval valued multi criteria decision making methods for the selection of flexible manufactur- ing system Manoj Mathewa and Joji Thomasb a Assistant Professor Department of mechanical engineering SSIPMT Raipur Chhattisgarh India b Associate Professor Department of mechanical engineering CCET Bhilai Chhattisgarh India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history In real world multi criteria decision making MCDM problem it is tough to solve a decision Received January 20 2019 matrix with vague and imprecise data. The degree of impreciseness depends on the kind of data Received in revised format March available. For interval valued data this impreciseness is less and interval-valued MCDM methods 26 2019 can be effectively used to solve the problem. A flexible manufacturing system FMS selection Accepted April 12 2019 Available online problem was taken into consideration to find the best FMS among available alternatives. An in- April 12 2019 terval extension of CODAS method is proposed in this paper which was used to solve the problem Keywords along with two other interval-valued decision-making methods . interval-valued TOPSIS in- Interval-valued TOPSIS terval-valued EDAS. All the three methods are distance-based approaches and it was found that Interval-valued EDAS the interval-valued CODAS method gave the exact same ranking with that of interval-valued Interval-valued CODAS TOPSIS and interval-valued EDAS. FMS selection MCDM 2019 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Flexible-manufacturing system FMS is a system which integrates programmable devices equipment and machines with a computer for manufacturing an extensive range of products. There are .
