Title: Interpretive structural modelling to evaluate the key barriers inhibiting successful implementation of overall equipment effectiveness

Authors: Sandeep Singh; Jaimal Singh Khamba; Davinder Singh

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khalsa College of Engineering and Technology, Amritsar, Punjab, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India

Abstract: The scope of study is to cover the critical and significant barriers in implementation of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) through interpretive structural modelling (ISM). Based on a common proverb "If we can't measure it, we can't improve it", ISM is the competent approach to measure the significance of its various variables (barriers), their hierarchy and interdependency on each other. The barriers affecting OEE implementation may vary as per industrial sectors, but the goal would remain the same, i.e., to embellish the performance. Fourteen critical barriers of OEE implementation were analysed with the directions and guidelines of industrial and academic experts. In addition, ISM model is proposed for the key barriers. ISM may be used to understand the relationship between barriers. Once the behavioural pattern of barriers is determined through ISM, it is easy to predict the issues related to equipment's maintenance and efficiency over a specific phase of time.

Keywords: key barriers; overall equipment effectiveness; OEE; interpretive structural modelling; ISM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2021.119775

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2021 Vol.34 No.3, pp.415 - 444

Received: 29 Mar 2020
Accepted: 26 Jul 2020
Published online: 20 Dec 2021 *

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