Author : L.Ramachandran and N.Alagumurthi

Now a day, Lean manufacturing becomes a key strategy for global competition. In the lean manufacturing environment select the best lean facilitator is a complex multi criteria problem. To solve such types of problems the VIKOR method is applied . By using the VIKOR method the decision makers can take the decision which is closer to the ideal solutions. In this paper linguistic fuzzy data is used to find the ratings and weights. A numerical example is proposed to demonstrate with an application of the proposed technique.

Key words: Lean manufacturing, facilitator selection, fuzzy ,VIKOR.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.3,No.2 (June- 2013)