A Selection of Guide Pin for an Automobile Part Manufacturing Process by Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Authors

  • Nitidetch Koohathongsumrit Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0174-4760
  • Warapoj Meethom Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand
  • Yanisa Srirat Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand

Keywords:

Multiple criteria decision-making, Analytic hierarchy process, Guide pin, Decision criteria

Abstract

A guide pin is important for a production system because it can force the workpiece to be in the correct position in a manufacturing process but the selection of guide pin is based on a multiple criteria decision-making problem due to involving a large number of criteria and alternatives. Therefore, the objective of this study was to select the most appropriate guide pin for an automotive manufacturing process. The research was started by collecting decision criteria from various studies and interviewing experts with more than 10 years of working experience and responsibility in the manufacturing process. Next, a questionnaire based-item-objective congruence (IOC) was designed to identify the decision criteria for selecting the guide pin. It was found that decision criteria include quantitative and qualitative decision criteria: cost, durability, quality, and shape. Then, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was employed to select the guide pin. The result showed that the most appropriate guide pin was a ceramic guide pin with the weight at 0.564, followed by polyurethane and KCF guide pins with the weights at 0.259 and 0.177, respectively. The ceramic guide pin was used for six months and found that using the guide pin can simultaneously decrease total production costs and increase productivity due to the number of guide pins used in the manufacturing processes, the costs of guide pins, and the number of defects were reduced at 89.19, 50.00 and 97.25 percent, respectively.

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2021-06-25

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N. . . Koohathongsumrit, W. Meethom, and Y. . . Srirat, “A Selection of Guide Pin for an Automobile Part Manufacturing Process by Using Analytic Hierarchy Process ”, UTK RESEARCH JOURNAL, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 17–30, Jun. 2021.

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