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Salmanzadeh H, Rahmani M, Alaee F, Landau K. Fuzzy Group Decision Making Approach for Ranking Work Stations Based on Physical Pressure. Iranian Rehabilitation Journal 2014; 12 (2) :44-54
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1- Department of Industrial Engineering, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany.
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This paper proposes a Fuzzy Group Decision Making approach for ranking work stations based on physical pressure. Fuzzy group decision making approach allows experts to evaluate different ergonomic factors using linguistic terms such as very high, high, medium, low, very low, rather than precise numerical values. In this way, there is no need to measure parameters and evaluation can be easily made in a group. According to ergonomics much work contents and situations, accompanied with multiple parameters and uncertainties, fuzzy group decision making is the best way to evaluate such a chameleon of concept. A case study was down to utilize the approach and illustrate its application in ergonomic assessment and ranking the work stations based on work pressure and found that this approach provides flexibility, practicality, efficiency in making decision around ergonomics areas. The normalized defuzzification numbers which are resulted from this method are compared with result of quantitative assessment of Automotive Assembly Work Sheet auto, it’s demonstrated that the proposed method result is 10% less than Automotive Assembly Work Sheet, approximately.

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Received: 2014/01/18 | Accepted: 2014/02/20 | Published: 2014/06/1

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