Abstract
Contact lens manufacturing is a unique industry. Due to soft contact lens has become the most popular type of contact lenses, the sales market and production capacity has been growing fast in recent years. In order to fulfill the rapidly growing needs in the international market, it is important to reduce material costs and manpower demand for soft contact lenses manufacturers in Taiwan to dominate the market. Although, there are more and more companies join the contact lens industry in recent years,they all faces the same challenges that needs a lot of workforce on back-end inspection process of manufacturing. All the contact lens companies have not yet overcome the need of manual inspections. Some of the companies have invested a lot of money in developing automated inspection equipment. However, there is no suitable automation inspection equipment for most contact lens manufacturer in Taiwan. Taiwan’s contact lens firms are still requiring more research and development on automation inspection equipment This research aims to analyze various key factors of automated inspection equipment development by proposing a method using UNISON framework for decision analysis as a foundation, and using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to assess the properties in order to construct an automated inspection equipment supplier selection model. By this method, it is able to reduce the risk of automated inspection equipment development save development costs, and also resolve the problem of lack of manpower in the back-end inspection process.