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At the equipment and system level, maintainability has a great influence on reliability and availability. This is true if redundancy has been implemented and redundant parts are repaired on line, i.e. without interruption of operation. Maintainability represents thus an important parameter in the optimization of availability and life-cycle cost. Achieving high maintainability, requires appropriate activities which must be started early in the design and development phase, and be coordinated by a maintenance concept. To this belong faults detection and isolation (built-in tests), partitioning of the equipment or system into (almost) independent last repairable units (spare parts at equipment or system level), and logistical support, including after-sales service. A maintenance concept has to be tailored to the equipment or system considered. After the introduction of basic terms (Section 4.1), this chapter deals with a maintenance concept for complex equipment and systems, and presents then methods and tools for maintainability calculations. Models for spare part provisioning are considered in depth in Section 4.5. Design guidelines for maintainability are given in Section 5.2.
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Birolini, A. (1999). Maintainability Analysis. In: Reliability Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03792-8_4
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