Application of FAHP Methodology to Rank Productivity-Affecting Factors in Blanket Factory: A Case Study

Blanket factory as a textile industry is one of the manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia; however, sector productivity main issue business owners. For reason improving sector, factors affecting should be identified and prioritized since improvement capital intensive measurement. In this research, FAHP methodology has been developed to prioritize productivity-affecting blanket factory. Productivity problem sourced from different factors. However, concept considered previous literature, its integration with not studied. sake filling gap, research conducted using following steps: at beginning, have literature. Then, there are many sectors, list potential investigated check which most common Finally, model applied According model, result showed that skilled employee on off job training, production process line balancing, better technology system important Based normalized weight, these scored 35.92%, 22.94%, 17.06%, respectively. As implications, procedure obtained results can help managers, operation managers practitioners, owners, academicians, researchers determine so they provide possible solutions