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At equipment and systems 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 the design & development phase and be coordinated by a maintenance concept. To this concept belong failure detection & localization (built-in tests), partitioning of equipment and systems into (as far as possible) independent line replaceable units, and logistic support.
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Birolini, A. (2014). Maintainability Analysis. In: Reliability Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39535-2_4
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