Product lifecycle management (PLM), a strategic business system allows more effective
communication among different groups at dispersed locations to share ideas and access …

The selection of a design for the given product is a critical problem in product design
development. Focuses of the designers and customers on the design are not identical. In …

Electric vehicles (EVs) could be regarded as one of the most innovative and high
technologies all over the world to cope with the fossil fuel energy resource crisis and …

Linguistic preference relation is a useful tool for expressing preferences of decision makers
in group decision making according to linguistic scales. But in the real decision problems …

Probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS), an efficient tool to describe decision information, can
sufficiently express decision makers' hesitation and preference. Probabilistic linguistic …

A systematical decision-making approach is constructed for quality function deployment
(QFD) in uncertain linguistic situations. The mathematical expression and operation of …

This study aims at improving the effectiveness of Quality function deployment (QFD) in
handling the vague, subjective and limited information. QFD has long been recognised as …

Owing to the typical vagueness or imprecision of customer requirements (CRs) in product
planning house of quality (PPHOQ), determining the final importance of CRs is very difficult …

The main idea behind this study is to introduce a fuzzy grey relational methodology (FGRM)
to determine the importance of customer attributes'(CAs) for edible oil, particularly for …

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven quality management tool that can
improve system quality, promote innovation, and enhance the core competitiveness of …