Performance evaluation in sustainability conscious manufacturing companies by using TOPSIS method

Abstract

In a manufacturing environment, managing limited resources has always been a main issue for engineers. Recently, the idea of managing limited resources without harming ecological environment adopted by manufacturing sector and sustainable manufacturing has become a key issue. While the concept of sustainability has been recognized, companies need to measure how sustainable they perform. Therefore, sustainability indicators are developed and used in order to assess companies' production activities expediently to sustainable manufacturing. This paper presents a research indicating the application of TOPSIS method on sustainability indicators related to production for two different multi-criteria decision making problems in a sustainability conscious manufacturing company. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013.