Determination of barriers priority that impacts to the implementation of the TPM concept by using Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

The implementation of the TPM concept brings with it significant benefits for an enterprise, but also faces with numerous barriers that can obstruct the implementation process. Also, an inadequate implementation method can generate some additional problems. In this paper, the problem of barriers priority determination that affects the implementation of the TPM concept by using the Genetic Algorithm is considered. The main goal of this paper is to determine which barriers are the most important to the TPM concept implementation by applying this metaheuristic method, but also those barriers that could be more easily eliminated if the major impact barriers were eliminated first. The considered problem in this paper is set as so-called "P-Median" problem. So far, in the literature it has not been possible to find papers where this type of problem has been solved by the application of any of the metaheuristics or Multi-Criteria Decision-Making methods.