“…In the past few decades, a good number of researchers have proposed and applied many decision-making techniques to guide in dealing with the issue of evaluation and selection of advanced manufacturing technologies, like FMS for specific industrial applications. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) [6][7][8][9], data envelopment analysis (DEA) [10][11][12][13][14], mixed integer linear programming model [15], intelligent tools and expert systems [16], decision algorithm based on fuzzy set theory [17], TOPSIS [18], fuzzy multi-objective programming [19], axiomatic design method [20], digraph and matrix approach [21], artificial neural network [22], combinatorial mathematics [23], PROMETHEE [24], analytic network process (ANP) [25], preference selection index (PSI) method [26], GRA [27], principal component analysis (PCA) [28] etc methods have been apllied to solve the FMS selection problems. Although, MCDM methods are observed to have immense potential to deal with such complex decision-making problems in conflicting situations, no effort yet been put to show the effet of normalization techniques on the ranking performance of MCDM methods while solving the FMS slection problems in discrete m,anufacturing environment.…”