Manufacturing Process Selection of Composite Bicycle's Crank Arm using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology 2017

Luqman, M.^1 ; Rosli, M.U.^1 ; Khor, C.Y.^1 ; Zambree, Shayfull^2 ; Jahidi, H.^1

Faculty of Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Level 1, UniCITI Alam Campus, Sungai Chuchuh, Padang Besar, Perlis

02100, Malaysia^1

Green Design and Manufacture Research Group, Center of Excellence Geopolymer and Green Technology (CEGeoGTech), School of Materials Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Kangar, Perlis

01000, Malaysia^2

关键词: Analytical Hierarchy Process;    Consistency tests;    Expensive products;    Manufacturing engineers;    Manufacturing process;    Product development process;    Production process;    Resin transfer moldings (RTM);   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/318/1/012058/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/318/1/012058

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Crank arm is one of the important parts in a bicycle that is an expensive product due to the high cost of material and production process. This research is aimed to investigate the potential type of manufacturing process to fabricate composite bicycle crank arm and to describe an approach based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP) that assists decision makers or manufacturing engineers in determining the most suitable process to be employed in manufacturing of composite bicycle crank arm at the early stage of the product development process to reduce the production cost. There are four types of processes were considered, namely resin transfer molding (RTM), compression molding (CM), vacuum bag molding and filament winding (FW). The analysis ranks these four types of process for its suitability in the manufacturing of bicycle crank arm based on five main selection factors and 10 sub factors. Determining the right manufacturing process was performed based on AHP process steps. Consistency test was performed to make sure the judgements are consistent during the comparison. The results indicated that the compression molding was the most appropriate manufacturing process because it has the highest value (33.6%) among the other manufacturing processes.