Multicriteria modeling applied to the analysis of investments

The analysis of investments up to the present has taken place in a traditional way, assuming that all the information necessary has been gathered for the process design, and the only thing necessary is to analyse it in order to achieve the required design. Many investors do their evaluations by means of statistical methods, which do not represent the true profit, since they do not consider the value of money in time. This aspect has a special impact in the effect of the investment. That is why dynamic evaluating methods are necessary, which also have the limitation of analysing just one criterion. In the present paper is presented a multicriteria model applied in the analysis of investment projects which includes the following criteria: reliability of the equipments, the equipments usage (performance) and human resources, analysis of profitability, return internal time, net present value and so on. The results of a study case are also given.