DOI: 10.4018/IJSESD.2019070105 International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development Volume 10 • Issue 3 • July-September 2019 Copyright © 2019, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. 69 A SAW Mechanism for Investigating the Status of Industrial Robots Under Comprehensive Sustainable Aspects Atul Kumar Sahu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India Harendra Kumar Narang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India Mridul Singh Rajput, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India Nitin Kumar Sahu, Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India ABSTRACT The authors attempt to model a decision-making mechanism; which can fix multiple robot characteristics and can aid in investigating robots status for a particular manufacturing arena. The work exposed a series of applicable robot characteristics; which differentiated their working capacity and defines their value. A simple additive weighting (SAW) mechanism under a fuzzy concept is presented for investigating the status of industrial robots; which incorporates comprehensive aspects for sustainable robot selection. The authors have extended the application field of fuzzy sets theory and illustrated the significant application of linguistic terms in the robot decision-making problem. The work compounds fuzzy sets theory with SAW techniques and thus serves a flavor of fuzzy concept and a SAW technique under single platform. The study reveals the course of action for executing the proposed work by the managers. The work has applied fuzzy linguistic terms for griping the appropriate perceptions of the decision makers and applied the conception of SAW methodology to yield the decision results. KEyWoRDS Fuzzy Sets Theory, Modeling, Robot Selection, Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), Sustainability 1. INTRoDUCTIoN Presently; manufacturers are continuously seeking performance measures onto the purchased machineries and equipment. Additionally; managers having high technical capability are facing problems in opting significant machineries and equipment due to numerous available alternatives with wide range of performance characteristics with distinct technical features into them. In recent years; production managers and engineers have stresses on finding fruitful and less expensive ways for producing products and thus; they have started towards adapting robots for executing jobs (Bard, 1986). It is found that replacing employees with robots is an inevitable choice for organizations in the service sector (Qureshi and Syed, 2014). Robot reciprocates a mechanical arm and usually defined as an electro mechanical machine that is directed by a computer program in order to complete the assigned task (Kapoor and Tak, 2005; Rao et al., 2011; Parkan and Wu, 1999). The ability of robots to respond towards a changing environment makes a robot superior as compared to other automated machines (Bard, 1986). Kootbally (2016) disclosed that robots capabilities can abundantly automate