Interpretive Structural Modeling to evaluate the key barriers inhibiting successful implementation of Overall Equipment Effectiveness

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.