... of identifying main and sub-criteria for MS selection, the decision route itself would be greatly different, as in the present case, historical machine data are not available. As such, a vital need for newly established fertilizers plants and similar process industry plants is to establish a guidance procedure...

... to reengineer new tools efficiently and to gain the maintenance excellence. Originality/value Originality mainly consists in the contemporary application of two non-identical MCDM-based methods (COPRAS-G and PSI). It will help to elucidate maintenance issues of major process industries and recommended...