Abstract
After reviewing 31 different descriptions of maintainability, Rigby and his associates developed the following definition:
“Maintainability is a quality of the combined features and characteristics of equipment design, job aids, and job supports which facilitate the rapidity, economy, ease, and accuracy with which maintenance operations can be performed, and the system thus kept in or returned to operating condition, by average ... personnel, under the environmental conditions in which the system will be maintained.” (Rigby, et al, 1961, as quoted in Crawford and Altman, 1972).
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Christensen, J.M., Howard, J.M. (1981). Field Experience in Maintenance. In: Rasmussen, J., Rouse, W.B. (eds) Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures. NATO Conference Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9230-3_8
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