Abstract:

The global epidemic of COVID-19 in the world increases the competition among all sectors day by day. In this increasing competition, businesses’ main purpose that especially produce health products is to provide the continuity of production and to increase productivity. Carrying out correct maintenance activities without waiting for fault situations is critical in terms of extending the efficient working life of machinery and equipment, sustaining production and increasing efficiency. That’s why, it is necessary to choose the most proper maintenance strategy to carry out maintenance activities. This paper aims to choose the most proper maintenance strategy for the hose pulling machine to rise the continuity and productivity of a medical enterprise that produces hose circuits for respiratory devices, whose importance has increased in the epidemic. The all criteria for the hose pulling machine were determined by discussing with the company management and using the literature, were evaluated by experts and weighted using the fuzzy ANP method. The most appropriate maintenance strategy has been selected among four strategies by manually entering the criteria weights found in the SuperDecision program. The ranking was made by applying TOPSIS and ELECTRE methods to be sure that the result of Fuzzy ANP is acceptable.

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