Design for Maintainability

How to design for optimum maintenance capabilities and minimize the repair time
 
Design for Maintainability offers engineers a wide range of tools and techniques for incorporating maintainability into the design process for complex systems. With contributions from noted experts on the topic, the book explains how to design for optimum maintenance capabilities while simultaneously minimizing the time to repair equipment.
 
The book contains a wealth of examples and the most up-to-date maintainability design practices that have proven to result in better system readiness, shorter downtimes, and substantial cost savings over the entire system life cycle, thereby, decreasing the Total Cost of Ownership. Design for Maintainability offers a wealth of design practices not covered in typical engineering books, thus allowing readers to think outside the box when developing maintainability design requirements. The book?s principles and practices can help engineers to dramatically improve their ability to compete in global markets and gain widespread customer satisfaction. This important book:
* Offers a complete overview of maintainability engineering as a system engineering discipline
* Includes contributions from authors who are recognized leaders in the field
* Contains real-life design examples, both good and bad, from various industries
* Presents realistic illustrations of good maintainability design principles
* Provides discussion of the interrelationships between maintainability with other related disciplines
* Explores trending topics in technologies
 
Written for design and logistics engineers and managers, Design for Maintainability is a comprehensive resource containing the most reliable and innovative techniques for improving maintainability when designing a system or product.

List of contents

Series Editor's Foreword by Dr Andre Kleyner xix
 
Preface xxi
 
Acknowledgments xxiii
 
Introduction: What You Will Learn xxv
 
1 Design for Maintainability Paradigms 1
Louis J. Gullo and Jack Dixon
 
1.1 Why Design for Maintainability? 1
 
1.1.1 What is a System? 1
 
1.1.2 What is Maintainability? 1
 
1.1.3 What is Testability? 2
 
1.2 Maintainability Factors for Design Consideration 2
 
1.2.1 Part Standardization 3
 
1.2.2 Structure Modularization 3
 
1.2.3 Kit Packaging 3
 
1.2.4 Part Interchangeability 3
 
1.2.5 Human Accessibility 4
 
1.2.6 Fault Detection 4
 
1.2.7 Fault Isolation 4
 
1.2.8 Part Identification 5
 
1.3 Reflections on the Current State of the Art 5
 
1.4 Paradigms for Design for Maintainability 6
 
1.4.1 Maintainability is Inversely Proportional to Reliability 7
 
1.4.2 Maintainability is Directly Proportional to Testability and Prognostics and Health Monitoring 7
 
1.4.3 Strive for Ambiguity Groups No Greater Than 3 7
 
1.4.4 Migrate from Scheduled Maintenance to Condition-based Maintenance 8
 
1.4.5 Consider the Human as the Maintainer 8
 
1.4.6 Modularity Speeds Repairs 8
 
1.4.7 Maintainability Predicts Downtime During Repairs 8
 
1.4.8 Understand the Maintenance Requirements 9
 
1.4.9 Support Maintainability with Data 9
 
1.5 Summary 10
 
References 11
 
2 History of Maintainability 13
Louis J. Gullo
 
2.1 Introduction 13
 
2.2 Ancient History 13
 
2.3 The Difference Between Maintainability and Maintenance Engineering 14
 
2.4 Early Maintainability References 15
 
2.4.1 The First Maintainability Standards 15
 
2.4.2 Introduction to MIL-STD-470 16
 
2.5 Original Maintainability Program Roadmap 17
 
2.5.1 Task 1: The Maintainability Program Plan 17
 
2.5.2 Task 2: Maintainability Analysis 17
 
2.5.3 Task 3: Maintenance Inputs 18
 
2.5.4 Task 4: Maintainability Design Criteria 18
 
2.5.5 Task 5: Maintainability Trade Studies 19
 
2.5.6 Task 6: Maintainability Predictions 19
 
2.5.7 Task 7: Vendor Controls 19
 
2.5.8 Task 8: Integration 19
 
2.5.9 Task 9: Maintainability Design Reviews 20
 
2.5.10 Task 10: Maintainability Data System 21
 
2.5.11 Task 11: Maintainability Demonstration 21
 
2.5.12 Task 12: Maintainability Status Reports 21
 
2.6 Maintainability Evolution Over the Time Period 1966 to 1978 21
 
2.7 Improvements During the Period 1978 to 1997 22
 
2.8 Introduction of Testability 23
 
2.9 Introduction of Artificial Intelligence 24
 
2.10 Introduction to MIL-HDBK-470A 24
 
2.11 Summary 26
 
References 26
 
3 Maintainability Program Planning and Management 29
David E. Franck, CPL and Anne Meixner, PhD
 
3.1 Introduction 29
 
3.2 System/Product Life Cycle 29
 
3.3 Opportunities to Influence Design 33
 
3.3.1 Engineering Design 33
 
3.3.2 Design Activities 33
 
3.3.3 Design Reviews 36
 
3.4 Maintainability Program Planning 37
 
3.4.1 Typical Maintainability Engineering Tasks 38
 
3.4.2 Typical Maintainability Program Plan Outline 38
 
3.5 Interfaces with Other Functions 42
 
3.6 Managing Vendor/Subcontractor Maintainability Efforts 44
 
3.7 Change Management 45
 
3.8 Cost-effectiveness 47
 
3.9 Maintenance and Life Cycle Cost (LCC) 50
 
3.10 Warranties 52
 
3.11 Summary 53
 
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About the author

Louis J. Gullo, Electrical Engineer with over 35 years of leadership and hands-on experience in electronic systems, advanced technology research, reliability requirements, and engineering hardware and software development. Louis is retired from the US Army and Raytheon, an IEEE Senior Member, IEEE Reliability Society Standards Committee chair, currently employed at Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC), Roy, UT. He is the co-editor/author of Design for Reliability and Design for Safety, both from Wiley. Jack Dixon is a Systems Engineering Consultant and President of JAMAR International, Inc. He has worked in the defense industry for over forty years doing system safety, human factors engineering, logistics support, systems engineering, program management, and business development. He is a contributing author of Design for Reliability and the co-author Design for Safety, both from Wiley.

Summary

How to design for optimum maintenance capabilities and minimize the repair time

Design for Maintainability offers engineers a wide range of tools and techniques for incorporating maintainability into the design process for complex systems. With contributions from noted experts on the topic, the book explains how to design for optimum maintenance capabilities while simultaneously minimizing the time to repair equipment.

The book contains a wealth of examples and the most up-to-date maintainability design practices that have proven to result in better system readiness, shorter downtimes, and substantial cost savings over the entire system life cycle, thereby, decreasing the Total Cost of Ownership. Design for Maintainability offers a wealth of design practices not covered in typical engineering books, thus allowing readers to think outside the box when developing maintainability design requirements. The book?s principles and practices can help engineers to dramatically improve their ability to compete in global markets and gain widespread customer satisfaction. This important book:

Offers a complete overview of maintainability engineering as a system engineering discipline

Includes contributions from authors who are recognized leaders in the field

Contains real-life design examples, both good and bad, from various industries

Presents realistic illustrations of good maintainability design principles

Provides discussion of the interrelationships between maintainability with other related disciplines

Explores trending topics in technologies

Written for design and logistic engineers and managers, Design for Maintainability is a comprehensive resource of the most reliable techniques for creating maintainability in when designing a product.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Dixon, Jack Gullo Dixon, LJ Gullo, Louis J Gullo, Louis J. Gullo, Louis J. Dixon Gullo
• Assisted by: Dixon (Editor), Dixon (Editor), Jack Dixon (Editor), Dixon Jack (Editor), Louis J. Gullo (Editor), Gullo Louis J. (Editor), Loui J Gullo (Editor), Louis J Gullo (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781119578512
• ISBN: 978-1-119-57851-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Quality and Reliability Engineering Series; Quality and Reliability Engineering Series; Wiley Series in Quality and Reliability Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Wartung, Systemtechnik, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik, Systemtechnik u. -management, Systems Engineering & Management, Quality & Reliability, Qualität u. Zuverlässigkeit