An Efficeint Operations Management Strategy using Fuzzy Logic Decision Making Based Shop Floor Control Technique

In any organization, shop floor control seems to be a vital and pivotal activity and effective shop floor control paves the way for cent percet production. Effective utilization of resources, proper production planning and successful maintainence would always pave the way for high productivity which in turn fulfils the commitment to meet out the delivery schedule for custoemers. Hence it is understood that continous and consistent shop floor management demands a serious focus that contributes for sound operations management. More developments have taken place in the recent decade in framing new methodologies and adopting new advanced techniques to control the shop floor acivities of an organization. The purposes of our paper is to bring out a new model for shop floor control using Fuzzy Logic Decision Taking technique to help the operations professionals to enable them for successful professional decision making in shop floor control. Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Techniques have witnessed tremendous application in operations management. Our paper has successfully attempted to apply Fuzzy Logic Decision Making Technique which is one among the various MCDM tools . The technique considers many factors like Production, Wastages, Breakdown or Idle Time etc and these factors are treated as criteria and upon using the tool, the Management Information System(MIS) resports generated after mathermatical manipulation using Fuzzy Logic seems to be much usedful for corporate decision making