Identification and prioritization of necessary infrastructure for implementation of maintenance strategies in Tabriz Tractor Company using fuzzy TOPSIS

Subject Areas : Production Management

saba sadeghi gavgani ¹ (Department of mathematics, Islamic Azad university, Sarab, Iran)
Akbar Valizadeh Oghani ² (Department of Management, Sarab branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarab, Iran)
Mohammad Taheri ³ (Department of Management, Sarab branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarab, Iran.)

Received: 2021-10-26 Accepted : 2022-05-11 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: Maintenance Strategies, Finance, structural factors, Equipment Barriers, Personnel Issues,

Abstract :

Today, maintenance plays an essential role in production systems and has a significant impact on achieving organizational goals, reducing equipment downtime, product quality, increasing productivity, and equipment safety. The purpose of this study is identification, and prioritization the necessary infrastructure for the implementation of maintenance strategies in Tabriz Tractor Manufacturing Company using fuzzy TOPSIS. The statistical population of the present study includes two groups of professors of management and industrial engineering, experts in this field, and managers and experts of Tabriz Tractor Manufacturing Company. The sample size of the first stage was determined based on theoretical saturation. The interviews continued to go on, as they did not add new interviews to the findings. In the second stage to determine the statistical sample of the research,76 people were selected using Cochran's formula. It was obtained by studying similar texts and studies, four main criteria, and 14 sub-criteria. The results show that in the infrastructure of implementation of maintenance strategies in Tabriz Tractor Manufacturing Company, financial issues are of particular importance, and manpower factors, equipment barriers, and structural factors fall into the next categories of this ranking respectively.