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Maintainability and maintenance has always been important to the industry as it affects the performance as well as the finance. For commercial airlines, maintenance costs around 10% of the airlines total cost, as much as fuel and travel agents’ commission (M Lam, 1995). Operators/users would like their system to be available and safe to operate when required. One should be lucky to find a smiling customer when the system fails and it takes a long time to recover the functionality.
Maintenance is the management of failures and the assurance of availability
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Hessburg, J. (2000). Maintainability and Maintenance. In: Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4655-9_5
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