Designing a Maintenance Management Model based on Interpretive Structural Modeling

The worldwide development of Maintenance Management Models (MMM) underscores the need of various organizations to take into account contextual and organizational differences and to design a model that is congruent with their context-based requirements. The purpose of the current study was to design an executive Maintenance Management Mode based on the Interpretive Structural Modelling Approach. To serve the purpose, the constituent components of the MMM were initially identified through literature review and interviews with experts which specified 14 components and 56 subcomponents in the form of 6 essential factors. Next, Interpretative Structural Modelling was employed to establish the relationship among the components and subcomponents ant to sequence them accordingly. Eventually, the overall structure of the MMM was proposed based on expert views and the statistical analyses. The findings indicated that six fundamental components including leadership, infrastructure, fundamental principles, support, improvement and Excellency constitute the very basis of the maintenance management in each technological organization. And that other components and sub-components emanate from these six components leading to ultimate improvement and Excellency of the organization.