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The objective of research is to determine the optimum setting between MIG welding input process parameters, e.g. welding current, open circuit voltage and thickness of plate in attaining high tensile strength with weld bead geometry quality characteristics, e.g. bead width, reinforcement, penetration and dilution in investigating define MS specimens.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The Taguchi's L<jats:sub>9<\/jats:sub> orthogonal array (OA) design is respected to conduct the experiments on MS plate specimens to attain output objectives. Later, the evaluated multiple output objectives are transformed into single response by applying a novel integrated computational TR<jats:sub>I<\/jats:sub>F<jats:sub>M<\/jats:sub>R<jats:sub>G<\/jats:sub> approach with GRA. Thereafter, the outset of signal-to-noise ratio (S\/N ratio) accompanied by ANOVA (Analysis of variance) is explored to optimize objective function.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The computed results are confirmed by conducting the experiments on same identical specimens. The outcome of the confirmation tests yielded an improvement of 0.24454, 0.372486, 0.686635 and 0.4106846 in grey relational grade (GRG), overall ratio index, reference grade and full multiplicative index, respectively, after validating the results.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>In the presented work, the authors constructed a novel integrated computational TR<jats:sub>I<\/jats:sub>F<jats:sub>M<\/jats:sub>R<jats:sub>G<\/jats:sub> approach via clustering GRA, overall ratio index (ORI), full multiplicative index (FMI) with GRA-reference grade (RG) and tested as well as applied with Taguchi concept to attain objective of the research work.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/gs-09-2020-0124","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,25]],"date-time":"2021-02-25T06:42:16Z","timestamp":1614235336000},"page":"117-141","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A novel 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