Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Selection Model with Application to Chemical Engineering Management Decisions

Chemical industry project management involves complex decision making situations that require discerning abilities and methods to make sound decisions. Project managers are faced with decision environments and problems in projects that are complex. In this work, case study is Research and Development (R&D) project selection. R&D is an ongoing process for forward thinking technology-based chemical industries. R&D project selection is an important task for organizations with R&D project management. It is a multi-criteria problem which includes both tangible and intangible factors. The ability to make sound decisions is very important to success of R&D projects. Multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches are major parts of decision theory and analysis. This paper presents all of MCDM approaches for use in R&D project selection. It is hoped that this work will provide a ready reference on MCDM and this will encourage the application of the MCDM by chemical engineering management.

Authors:

• Mohsen Pirdashti
• Arezou Ghadi
• Mehrdad Mohammadi
• Gholamreza Shojatalab

Keywords:

• Chemical Engineering
• R&D Project
• MCDM
• Selection.

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