Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference

In order to allow managers to perform an evaluation process to prioritise variables for further decision analysis, it is desirable for the prototype tool to have an evaluation module. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method developed by Saaty in 1987 was added to the prototype tool. The advantage of AHP is its capability to elicit judgements and scale them uniquely using a valid procedure that measures the consistency of these scale values.