3D printing technologies for enhancing the sustainability of an aircraft manufacturing or MRO company—a multi-expert partial consensus-FAHP analysis

摘要: The application of three-dimensional (3D) printing can enhance not only the competitiveness but also sustainability an aircraft manufacturing or maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) company. This study sought to identify critical factors for such applications. Herein, first, long-term opportunities challenges facing MRO company planning apply 3D technologies are discussed. enhancing their identified from discussion results. priorities usually ranked using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). However, existing FAHP methods cannot rank reasonably when experts (or decision-makers) fail reach overall consensus. To address this problem, a novel partial consensus (PC)-FAHP approach is proposed that seeks obtain among experts. After assessing effectiveness methodology with case involving three experts, most were be cost-effectiveness, number types parts will printable, advances in research development have been made already expected near future. In addition, ranking result obtained PC-FAHP was different methods.