Manufacturing System faces changing environment and competition among companies which makes regular improvements making process essential. Ample of criteria and constraints to determine best manufacturing strategy makes changes making complicated. Identifying competitive priorities for plant and industry and focusing on those competitive priorities through manufacturing using improvement programs and investing in people helps in getting competitive advantage over other companies. In this paper, a methodology for evaluation of these competitive priorities for manufacturing systems is presented. Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) – a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool is used to make a pair wise comparison of competitive priorities in manufacturing system. Ranking of competitive priorities for five companies in automobile sector is evaluated with rating which is recorded as solution for the given questionnaire. A questionnaire for an interviewing company executive is made for data collection in company. A pair wise comparison rating for each criteria and sub-criteria for each plant has evaluated. This result for each plant is then compared. And order winning and order qualifying criteria are found for the industry. For enhancement of level of manufacturing system practitioners can follow this approach to evaluate its competitive priorities and compare with other companies and industry’s best one