Fuzzy AHP and Factor Analysis Application in Maintenance Strategy Selection

Many companies think of maintenance as an inevitable source of cost. Maintenance plays an important role in keeping availability and reliability levels, product quality, and safety requirements. The managers have to select the best maintenance policy for each piece of equipment or system from a set of possible alternative. In this article, we with the help of going over expertise of experts and their relevant specialized literature try to recognize variables and effective criteria in selecting maintenance strategy. Then, by using factor analysis, we will process the data so that we can designate fundamental variables and summarize them in some factors. Then after, we will apply the results from factors analysis for nomination of criteria in a hierarchy structure. Consequently, by utilizing FAHP, we will choose the best strategy

کلیدواژه ها:

Maintenance strategies ، Factor Analysis ، Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process