چكيده لاتين :
Rapid Prototyping (RP) processes are attractive technologies that are being used for rapid manufacturing of industrial parts. Nowadays, this technology has emerged in the Rapid Tooling field and has been recognized as one of the most important elements of the manufacturing process chain. So far, numerous techniques with different capabilities have been developed. This creates difficulties in choosing a proper method, according to industrial need, as the investment cost of purchasing and installing the equipment is high. In the present work, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), which is a common decision dilemma in the solution of economical, social and management problems, was used to analysis the direct rapid tooling processes. This article describes the process and details it by describing a case study for the Supplier of Automotive Parts Company (SAPCO) of the Iran Khodro Industrial Group (Tehran, Iran).
