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At equipment and system level, maintainability has a great influence on reliability and availability. This holds in particular if redundancy has been implemented and redundant parts can be repaired (restored) on line, i. e., without interruption of operation at system level. Maintainability is thus an important parameter in the optimization of reliability, availability, and life-cycle cost. Achieving high maintainability in complex equipment and systems requires appropriate activities which must be started early in design & development phase and be coordinated by a maintenance concept. To this concept belong failure detection and localization (built-in tests), partitioning of equipment or system into (as far as possible) independent line replaceable units, and logistic support. A maintenance concept has to be tailored to the equipment or system considered. After some basic concepts, Section 4.2 deals with a maintenance concept for complex equipment & systems. Section 4.3 discusses maintainability aspects in design reviews. Section 4.4 gives methods and tools for maintainability prediction. Spare parts provisioning&repair strategies are carefully considered in Sections 4.5 & 4.6, respectively; cost optimization in Sections 4.5 - 4.7. Design guidelines for maintainability are given in Section 5.2. The influence of preventive maintenance, imperfect switching, and incomplete coverage on system's reliability & availability is investigated in Section 6.8. For simplicity, delays (administrative, logistic, technical) are neglected and repair is used for restoration.
*Ingénieur et penseur, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Reliability Eng. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
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Birolini*, A. (2010). Maintainability Analysis. In: Reliability Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14952-8_4
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