Identifying and Prioritizing Effective Factors on Productivity of Manufacturing Industries: A Case Study of Pharmaceutical and Household Appliances Industries in Guilan Province

Subject Areas : industrial engineering

hamzeh amintahmasebi ¹ (Associate Professor,Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, East of Guilan, University of Guilan, Iran.)
Neda Karimi ² (Assistant Professor,Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering,East of Guilan, University of Guilan, Iran.)
Mahdi Zarepour ³ (Department of Industrial Engineering, Rahbord-Shomal Inistitute, Rasht)
Seyed Esmail Moghaddas ⁴ (Master of Business Management, Ministry of Mining, Industry and Trade of Giulan)

Received: 2023-04-17 Accepted : 2023-08-07 Published : 2024-09-23

Keywords: productivity, manufacturing industries, pharmaceutical industries, household appliances industries, Guilan province,

Abstract :

In today's world, one of the most important factors of the country's economic development is improving the productivity of manufacturing industries. Identifying factors affecting the productivity of manufacturing industries and prioritizing them is effective in promoting productivity and can promise to achieve organizational and national productivity. The purpose of this research is to identify the effective factors in improving the productivity of manufacturing industries. The present research method is descriptive-survey and the data collection instrument is a questionnaire. In the first step, based on the review of the related literature, using a comparative method, and asking expert opinions, potential factors affecting the productivity of industries were identified and analyzed. Then, the factors were divided into four main categories and the selected factors were determined by using a questionnaire and incorporating the expert opinions. Then, the importance of the selected factors was determined using the Fuzzy SWARA decision-making method, and the final ranking of the selected industries of the province was done using the MOORA method. The results showed that the "profit margin", "ratio of sales to current assets" and " ratio of exports to sales" factors, respectively, have the highest importance and among the pharmaceutical and household appliances industries of the province that are present in the stock exchange. Caspian tamin company has the highest productivity with a productivity score of 0.437.

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