Maintainability Program Plan

Overview

The primary purpose of the 'Maintainability Program Plan' is to improve operational readiness, reduce maintenance manpower needs, reduce system life cycle cost and provide data essential for management.
The objective shall be to ensure attainment of the maintainability requirements of the acquisition.

The maintainability aspect during the systems development is extremely important and it is vital that supplier are aware of their responsibilities in this respect as the results can have serious affects for the user. The Maintainability requirements must be expressed as definitively as possible. The requirements shall apply to planned maintenance in the support environment and shall be expressed in quantitative terms:

time (e.g., turn around time, time to repair, time between maintenance actions);
rate (e.g., maintenance hours per operating hours, frequency of preventative maintenance);
complexity (e.g., number of people and skill levels, variety of support equipment).

The expectation of carrying out repairs in the field by substitution of components (e.g., the replacement of a faulty card or module in an electronic item) shall be defined.

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