Selection of a Pneumatic Stunner for an Agro-Industrial Beef Process Using the Ahp and Ahp-Gaussian Methods

Abstract

Decision-making is intrinsically present in our lives and is part of everyday life in organizations. In this sense, this work aims to select a pneumatic pistol, from the AHP and AHP-Gaussian methods for use in an agro-industrial beef process in a small town in the interior of northeastern Brazil. An unstructured interview was conducted with a Manager of the Animal Traffic Guide to better understand the process, as well as the needs of the machinery to be selected. A posteriori, the criteria chosen for the modeling were: price, handling weight, slaughter capacity, and work pressure, and the alternatives were: JARVIS-USSS-22A, DALPINO-ATP-01, and TRAUMAGADO ZANA. The results showed that the best pneumatic gun for the situation under study is the pneumatic pistol DALPINO-ATP-0 1.