Paper analyzes manufacturing capability in job shop environments by evaluating the pattern of decisions using a case study approach. Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) method, has been employed which consists of three levels. The overall goal, i.e. manufacturing capability index is placed at level 1 followed by six decision areas at level 2 and thirty three decision criteria at level 3. Structured interview process has been used to collect information about thirty three decision criteria. The data was collected and analyzed for five companies operated in a job shop manufacturing environment. Pattern of decisions that are ideally essential for competitiveness of job shop manufacturing are then compared with the pattern of decisions from the five cases. This approach facilitates the practitioners to indentify the weak decision areas in order to improve the competitiveness in job shop manufacturing.