Decision Tree Approach for Plants Stoppage Decision Process due to Power Limitation Case study: Steel Company

This paper presents an approach to the design and construction of an innovative decision support system (DSS) to help the top management (TM) of multi plants companies(MPC) to take the optimum decision in the case of power limitation to choose which plant or plants to be stopped with minimum losses. A case study is also presented for a steel company that contains a technical study for applying the DSS concepts. This case study can be considered as a model for any MPC either in steel industries or else, which faces the same problem and needs a DSS to take the optimum decision. It describes the system in terms of the nature of the decision problem, discusses factors which affect the problem and considers the design goals.