FUZZY GOAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR SOIL ALLOCATION PROBLEM IN BRICK-FIELDS- A CASE STUDY

Abstract

This paper presents fuzzy goal programming approach for optimal allocation of soil for Brick production planning for different types of Bricks in a Brick-field. Production of Bricks plays an important role in construction sector. Although construction sector is an unrecognized sector, it is steadily growing and contributing nation development. In order to survive and compete with other Brick fields, the decision-making unit of a Brick-field has to make decision that is competitive, practical, and challenging in order to meet the demand of the customers as well as markets. That is why it tries to maintain the quality of Bricks produced. In the model formulation, goals such as Brick production, net profit, water requirement, coal requirement, labor requirement, and machine utilization are considered as fuzzy as the decision makers prefer to describe it fuzzily to accommodate imprecise data. Then fuzzy goal programming approach is used to obtain the most satisfactory solution. To explore the application potential of the proposed model, the soil allocation planning problem of Kandakhola Brick-field at Santipur, Dist-Nadia and West Bengal, India is taken into consideration.