Purpose: The purpose of this paper model and prioritizes barriers to product development in medical device manufacturing industries using an integrated “structural equation modelling” (SEM) and “fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution” (FTOPSIS) framework....

Purpose: This paper aims to determine the performance of the departments at Dr Zainoel Abidin Regional General Hospital, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, based on the targets and realization of their work programs using balanced scorecard. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopted...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate design performance of 51 gear shaping machines by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Design/methodology/approach: Existing studies extend traditional DEA by handling bounded and discrete data based on envelopment models. However, value...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a method for the discovery of knowledge in emergency response databases based on police incident reports, generating information that identifies local criminal demands that allow the selection of the appropriate policing strategies portfolio to...

Purpose: As a critical problem in sophisticated distribution systems, vehicle routing plays a pivotal role in dealing with time windows and capacities constraints. The purpose of this paper is to addresses a new integrated model to incorporate both three-dimensional and time windows aspects of...

Purpose: This paper studies the preemptive scheduling problem of independent jobs on identical machines. The purpose of this paper is to minimize the makespan under the imposed constraints, namely, the ones that relate the transportation delays which are required to transport a preempted job...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report the analysis of factors influencing additive manufacturing (AM) application in the food domain. Design/methodology/approach: Based on literature review, 16 factors are being considered in the study. Interpretive structural modelling is used as a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a combined intuitionistic fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (IFAHP) and fuzzy multi-objective optimization approach to select suppliers and allocate the orders to them in the bottled water production context. Design/methodology/approach: First,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a hybrid meta-heuristic based on genetic algorithms (GAs), simulated annealing, variable neighborhood descent and path relinking for solving the variant of the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem considering sequence-dependent setup...

Purpose: Because that the crime in a wide way impacts the life of the people in the big metropolis, researchers have treated the question from several angles. The purpose of the paper, under the umbrella of operational research, is to develop a model of the ordering of police strategies, in the...