Goal-based multi-criteria decision making for your designs
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OVERVIEW

TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is a decision making technique that fits between the qualitative Pugh Matrix and quantitative SDI Matrix approaches. TOPSIS is a Goal-based approach for finding the alternative that is closest to the ideal solution  

FEATURES

  • Create and manage a TOPIS matrix with up to 200 Criteria and 200 Options
  • Add, remove, or insert Criteria and Options with click of a button
  • Expand the TOPSIS Matrix with click of a button
  • Each criterion can be weighted
  • Check inputs for errors.
  • Integrated pareto chart
  • Manage information visibility
  • Context-sensitive help and right-click popup

HOW IT WORKS

The basic concept of this method is that the selected Design Options should have the shortest distance from the ideal solution and the farthest from the negative-ideal solution (in a geometric sense). The Euclidean distance approach is used to evaluate the relative closeness of each Design Option to the Ideal solution.

TOPSIS approach:
  1. Create matrix with Design Options and Criteria
  2. Assign Importance to Criteria
  3. Enter Design Option data for each Criteria
  4. Assign goal direction (Minimize or Maximize)
  5. Compute and Evaluate Scores

TOPSIS assumes that each Design Option wants to either be maximized or minimized, so the positive-ideal solution for a Criterion that wants to be maximized is the maximum value of all the design options considered and the negative-ideal solution is the minimum values of all the design options considered.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
  • Microsoft Excel 2013, 2016, 2019, 365
  • WARNING: SDI Tools does not support these versions of Office 365 (Office from Microsoft Store, Office Online, Office for Mac, Office for iOS)
  • Administrator rights required to install software

MORE

  • Sort Criteria and Options by any row or column
  • Control how information is displayed.
  • Automatic calculation of scores
  • Specify how many Criteria and Options are in the matrix when the TOPSIS worksheet is created.
  • Expand the matrix and view the impact to the number of evaluations.

VIDEOS

This video shows design selection using Pugh Matrix, TOPIS, and SDI Matrix using SDI Tools v3 in action. We will be updating this video to reflect changes to SDI Tools v4 soon.

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