ABSTRACT
There are various criteria which affect the performance of Belt Conveyor. The performance of Belt Conveyor in terms of Maintenance cost and Load capacity is an essential issue for Screening Creaser. Selection of Belt Conveyor is a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem. In that respect there are many methods available for selection of Best Belt Conveyor, however, this paper targets to investigate the applicability of AHP to solve Best Belt Conveyor selection problem. AHP is a method that assists in choosing greatest alternatives by pair wise comparison of each other and their criteria articulated as a matrix. In the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), decision maker primaries give linguistic pair wise comparisons and then obtain an arithmetical pair wise assessment by selecting a certain numerical scale to measure them. After that, each column of the substitutes is multiplied as per the priority of the corresponding criteria and lastly the ranks are calculated by adding each row. The pair wise comparison is made with the standard scale. On the basis of giving criteria, which conclude how much one alternative is more important than other? Finally derives a priority vector from the numerical pair wise comparisons.
