Guide on maintainability of equipment--Prat 3: maintainability programme

2Scope / Description

The cost of repairing a product will vary depending on the size and complexity of the product and the nature and severity of the failure. Maintenance costs can become a major part of the user's total costs. Minimizing the total cost is an important goal of the user, so while ensuring that all other requirements are met, attention must be paid to the maintainability of the product throughout the expected life cycle. At the same time it is also important to achieve a high level of effectiveness of the product. The best way to achieve the above objectives is to formulate a formal maintainability program at the planning stage. But the outline should be flexible enough to be modified based on engineering experience. The content of the outline and the resulting costs will vary from project to project. Therefore, due attention should be paid to each of the following steps in formulating the outline, so that each step can be adapted.