Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company

This paper proposes an approach to a multi-criteria investment performance analysis of industrial products. Manufacturers must determine the necessary and sufficient specification of products they use. Such an analysis, however, involves a broad range of factors, including some that are subjective...

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Main Authors: Sato, Yuji, Tan, Kim Hua, Tse, Ying Kei
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017
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spelling nottingham-404692018-06-16T08:00:39Z http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40469/ Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company Sato, Yuji Tan, Kim Hua Tse, Ying Kei This paper proposes an approach to a multi-criteria investment performance analysis of industrial products. Manufacturers must determine the necessary and sufficient specification of products they use. Such an analysis, however, involves a broad range of factors, including some that are subjective. The performance analysis and decision making for investment thus must often rely heavily on past experience, generalities, and intuition. This paper addresses these issues from a benefit, opportunity, cost and risk (BOCR) perspective, in which the criteria are prioritized and the products are evaluated objectively. Pairwise comparisons among the criteria and quantitative assessments of the performance of products comprise a prioritized BOCR analysis. A case study demonstrating the applicability of the proposed approach is conducted at a chemical company. Results show that the proposed approach succeeds in the multi-criteria performance analysis of industrial products, resulting in a practical proposal of a product specification best suited to this company’s case. Elsevier 2017-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40469/1/investment%20performance%20analysis%20of%20industrial%20products.pdf Sato, Yuji and Tan, Kim Hua and Tse, Ying Kei (2017) Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company. International Journal of Production Economics, 194 . pp. 52-58. ISSN 0925-5273 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925527316304005 doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.12.021 doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.12.021
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description This paper proposes an approach to a multi-criteria investment performance analysis of industrial products. Manufacturers must determine the necessary and sufficient specification of products they use. Such an analysis, however, involves a broad range of factors, including some that are subjective. The performance analysis and decision making for investment thus must often rely heavily on past experience, generalities, and intuition. This paper addresses these issues from a benefit, opportunity, cost and risk (BOCR) perspective, in which the criteria are prioritized and the products are evaluated objectively. Pairwise comparisons among the criteria and quantitative assessments of the performance of products comprise a prioritized BOCR analysis. A case study demonstrating the applicability of the proposed approach is conducted at a chemical company. Results show that the proposed approach succeeds in the multi-criteria performance analysis of industrial products, resulting in a practical proposal of a product specification best suited to this company’s case.
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author Sato, Yuji
Tan, Kim Hua
Tse, Ying Kei
spellingShingle Sato, Yuji
Tan, Kim Hua
Tse, Ying Kei
Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
author_facet Sato, Yuji
Tan, Kim Hua
Tse, Ying Kei
author_sort Sato, Yuji
title Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
title_short Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
title_full Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
title_fullStr Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
title_full_unstemmed Investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
title_sort investment performance analysis of industrial products: case of an effluent processing facility at a chemical company
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2017
url http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40469/
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40469/1/investment%20performance%20analysis%20of%20industrial%20products.pdf
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