Selection of optimum maintenance approach based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

  Nikhil K M,  Mary C.Kurian

Maintenance is considered as one of the most important factors that determine total cost of production. Every organization is different with its own working environment, so selecting the right maintenance approach appears to be a tough decision. So appropriate maintenance selection is important in the present industrial context. This study emphasizes on application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for an imperative feed production plant. A maintenance hierarchy was formulated for the concerned plant, which disintegrates the maintenance problem into sub problems for simplifying the maintenance decision. Inspection of all acquaintances were carried out in the form of measurable and non-measurable, financial and non-financial, tangible and intangible parameters, thereby providing a comprehensive method for optimum maintenance approach selection

Keywords- AHP, MCDM, Maintenance approach selection

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1603074
Page Number(s) - 454-458
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 3 | August 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Nikhil K M,  Mary C.Kurian,   "Selection of optimum maintenance approach based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP)", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 3, pp.454-458, August 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1603074.pdf