A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach for Maintenance Strategy Selection

Maintenance Activities play a critical role in achieving organizational goals and objectives. Th ey contribute in reducing equipment downtime, improving quality and increasing productivity. Th e effective use of different maintenance strategies is one of the most challenging tasks for the decision makers in industries. Selection of Appropriate maintenance policy is important as the maintenance management is complex and the output of maintenance is hard to measure and quantify. Th is study presents an application of the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) for a risk-based maintenance strategy selection. Th e proposed approach of this study has been used to select appropriate maintenance strategies for different risk levels in a petrochemical plant.