Machine tool selection process has been a critical issue for companies for years since improper selection of a machine tool might cause many problems affecting negatively the productivity precision flexibility and company's responsive manufacturing capabilities. On the other hand selecting the best machine tool from its increasing number of existing alternatives in the market is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem in the presence of many quantitative and qualitative attributes. Therefore most companies have utilized various methods to successfully carry out this difficult and time-consuming process. In this paper both of the most used MCDM methods
