TABLE OF CONTENTS In this handbook, the following are presented, discussed and illustrated by examples:
Concepts of, and definitions for, Reliability Engineering, Maintainability Engineering, Maintenance, Maintainability, Operational Readiness, Reliability of Maintained Equipment and Systems and Systems and the Availability of Maintained Equipment and System Effectiveness.
Equipment times, including the various preventive and corrective maintenance times, equipment downtime categories, equipment up time categories and their interrelationships.
Maintenance personnel and safety factors, and support facilities and equipment.
Fifteen key maintainability design criteria to improve the accessibility to critical units in equipment scheduled for maintenance, and minimize equipment downtime.
Equipment downtime distributions, with emphasis on the lognormal, Weibull and exponential distributions, and determination of the distribution parameters and their statistics.
Maintainability quantification for a specified time to restore the equipment for the lognormal, Weibull and exponential downtime distributions. The word restore is used to mean maintain, and/or replace and/or repair.
Determination of the time to restore the equipment for a specified maintainability for the lognormal, Weibull and exponential downtime distributions.
A-priori and a-posteriori maintainability determination.
Analytical Maintainability Engineering functions that are analogous to those in Reliability Engineering.
Mean time to actively restore units to satisfactory function, mean maintenance man-hours to repair and replace equipment, and mean time for corrective and preventive maintenance. The word unit is used to mean any equipment, product or system.
Sixteen preventive maintenance policies, including policies of age, block and other types of replacement of units; and the resulting improvement in equipment reliability and MTBF.
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