It is indisputable that printed circuit boards (PCBs) play a vital role in our daily lives. With the ever-increasing applications of PCBs, one of the crucial ways to increase a PCB manufacturer s competitiveness in terms of operation efficiency is to minimize the production time so that the products can be introduced to the market sooner.

Optimal Production Planning for PCB Assembly is the first book to focus on the optimization of the PCB assembly lines efficiency. This is done by:

integrating the component sequencing and the feeder arrangement problems...

This book is the first in the literature and presents the state of the art in new developments and some interesting and relevant applications of the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP).The AHP were introduced in the 1970s as a conceptually and mathematically simple, easily implementable, yet extremely powerful tool for group decision making and is used around the world in a wide variety of decision situations, such as government, business, industry, healthcare, and education. The aim of this book is to study various fuzzy methods for dealing with the imprecise and ambiguous data in...