Assessment of the Status of Industrial Logistics Innovative Production Equipment and Systems in the Particular Manufacturing Company

Abstract

In the first part, this paper deals with the current status of the innovative equipment and systems in the manufacturing companies and its importance within the global competitiveness. In the subsequent parts of the paper, the characteristics of particular multi-criteria analysis methods and the determination of the weightings of individual aspects (assessment criteria) that influence the situation in the developing the innovative production equipment and systems in the specific fields of industrial logistics in the particular manufacturing company when applying the selected methods of multi-criteria analysis are outlined. From the obtained outcomes, it is obvious that the assessment aspects of the manufacturing company are: (1) the grade and quality of the innovation status; (2) the business aspects and competitiveness; (3) the grade and quality of attributes of production equipment and systems and (4) the effectiveness of the logistics processes. The final part of this paper is focused on the selected manufacturing companies, dealing with the production of industrial equipment and systems, in the particular country and the application of the specific methods of the multi-criteria analysis in order to make the empirical statistics and the final complex assessment.