RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY RANKING USING AN ANP APPROACH AND ITS SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

There are many rapid prototyping machine available in the market and all of them have their own advantages and limitations. When the time come to purchase a new machine it is a crucial decision to select best alternate available in the market. Here in this paper analytical network process approach is applied to this problem. This approach help in selecting best machine among the available options. A Frame wor k was developed in previous paper 1 for Selection of RP Technology based on some qualitative and quantitative attributes. In this paper Multi criteria based decision making Analytical Network Process Approach (ANP) is used for ranking and its sensitivity an alysis done for robustness of framework