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SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, cilt.27, sa.1, ss.162-177, 2016 (SCI-Expanded)
As a decision-making problem, selecting proper machines and equipment plays a key role for mining sites and companies. Many factors affect this decision, and values belonging to these factors can be expressed numerically and/or non-numerically. In order to make the most appropriate decision, engineers must carry out an evaluation process that comprises all criteria that might affect decision-making. To achieve this, multi-criteria decision-making tools are used. As a result of technological developments, coal outputs in longwall mining have risen tremendously over the last decades, and longwall mechanisation has become unavoidable. The significance of powered roof supports in particular increases day-by-day, since the rate of roof support has to be in accordance with the rate of face advance in longwalls.