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MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION-MAKING FOR CNC MACHINE TOOL SELECTION IN FMC BASED ON THE INTEGRATION OF THE IMPROVED CONSISTENT FUZZY AHP AND TOPSIS 1a 1b 2 3 Siti Zawiah Md Dawal , Nukman Yusoff , Huu-Tho Nguyen , Hideki Aoyama 1Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tel. 60-3-7967-7625, Fax. 603 7967 5330, Email: 1asitizawiahmd@um.edu.my, 1bnukman@um.edu.my 2Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tel. 60-3-7967-7625, Fax. 603 7967 5330, Email: nguyenhuutho@siswa.um.edu.my 3Professor, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan, Tel. 8 1-45-566-1722, Fax. 81-45-566-1720, Email: haoyama@sd.keio.ac.jp Received Date: November 28, 2012 Abstract Globalization of business and the competitiveness of manufacturing have motivated companies to improve the facilities to respond to the market requirements. Machine tool selection plays a major role in the improvement of productivity, flexibility in uncertain manufacturing. The objective of this study is to present the simple approach for machine tool selection based on the integration of consistent fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS. In particular, the fuzzy linguistic reference relation is integrated into AHP to solve the imprecise and vague information, and simplify the data collection in the pair-wise comparison matrix, which determines the weight of attributes. The output of fuzzy AHP is imported into the TOPSIS method for ranking alternatives through the