EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY 4.0 ON THE MARITIME SECTOR WITH FUZZY AHP – VIKOR HYBRID METHOD

Abstract

Industry 4.0 technology has affected almost every sector in the world. The maritime sector is one of them that has been affected by this technology. In this study, components of the maritime sector were prioritised to find out which of them should comply with this transformation primarily. Many different criteria were taken into consideration for the solution of such problems. Therefore, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are required to solve this problem. The Fuzzy AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method was employed for revealing the prioritisation ranking of the industry 4.0 effects on the maritime sector. Afterwards, VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacijia I Kompromisno Resenje) method was employed for obtaining the prioritisation level of the maritime sector components for complying with the Industry 4.0 transformation. A group of experts assessed and compared 22 criteria and scored them for each alternative. The proposed method was employed through the experts’ assessments. Results were displayed and suggestions were given for further studies.