5. Decision Making Grid (DMG) concept
The DMG concept developed by Labib (1996) is a hybrid of the Rule Based Approach
(see section 4) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for multiple criteria
decision-making (MCDM). It was then implemented in companies that have achieved a
world-class status in maintenance (Labib, 1998a, 2004). The DMG model has also been
extended to be used as a technique to deal with crisis management in an award
winning paper (Labib, 1998b[1]), where it was presented in the context of crisis
management rather than maintenance management. It has been implemented in
Malaysia (Tahir et al., 2009) and (Burhanuddin, 2007) and in the UK by Fernandez et al.
(2003).