Combination of symmetry point of criterion, compromise ranking of alternatives from distance to ideal solution and collaborative unbiased rank list integration methods for woodworking machinery selection for small business in Vietnam

Abstract

Woodworking industry plays an important role in the development of Vietnam’s economy. The efficiency of woodworking process depends a lot on the machinery used in the woodworking process. Selecting the best option among a variety of machines is tedious and complex work. However, if the choice of machine is based only on the subjective opinion of the customer, it will lead to mistakes. That mistake is understood that the customer will choose the option that is not the best among the machines proposed by the supplier. Instead, machine selection must be based on all machine parameters. This is called multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). There are MCDM methods, when used it is necessary to know the weights of the criteria. However, there are also methods that do not need to know the weights of the criteria. CRADIS (Compromise Ranking of Alternatives from Distance to Ideal Solution) is a method that, when used, is required to weight the criteria. In contrast, this problem is unnecessary when using the CURLI (Collaborative Unbiased Rank List Integration) method. In this study, three kinds of machinery commonly used for small business in woodworking field were selected. The three kinds of machinery mentioned in this study include wood milling machine, wood saw machine, wood planer. The SPC (Symmetry Point of Criterion) method was used to calculate the weights of the criteria for each kind of machinery. This is the youngest method among the methods of determining the weights for the criteria, it was only found in 2023. The two methods include CRADIS and CURLI were used to rank the machinery kinds. The result showed that in all the surveyed situation, the best alternative is always determined consistently when using CRADIS and CURLI methods. Accordingly, three best alternatives with three different machinery kinds (milling machine, saw machine and planer) were found in this study