Evaluation and selection of lean resourced employee in the manufacturing industries using the TOPSIS-Simos method

Among modern manufacturing methods, lean manufacturing has been a dominant method used in many industrial sectors. The principle of the lean manufacturing is to eliminate the wastes present in various forms of the industry. The adoption of lean manufacturing in an industry could be identified by the leanness measurement through lean assessment. In lean assessment, the evaluator plays a vital role. Selecting the right person for the assessment will reduce the ambiguity, time consumption and computation time. Decision-makers play a vital role in lean assessment. Few studies have been found in the literature to select or identify the decision-maker. In this article, the TOPSIS-Simos method has been proposed to identify a lean resourced employee in the industry. The proposed method is case studied in the manufacturing industries. The lean resourced employee has been identified after computation. The proposed method could be applied to identify the lean resourced employee in all types of manufacturing industries.