The Maintenance Concept encompasses the areas of repair philosophies,maintenance support levels,manpower for maintenance,and the costs associated with maintenance. It serves the two purposes:
1.It establishes the basis for maintainability requirements in equipment/system design. For example, if the repair philosophy demands that external help will be available at the organizational level of maintenance the equipment design must incorporate some in-built tests so that the user can take care of the maintenance aspects as well.
2. It establishes the basis for the requirements for total maintenance support, which is important to complete the task. These requirements can be arrived at with the help of a proper maintenance analysis.Through proper analysis of the maintenance requirements and the anticipated frequencies of failures, the crew skill levels, the spare parts, the tools and the facilities required can be worked out in advance.
The maintenance concept must be developed at the inception of a program prior to the start of equipment design, in order to ensure that all the functions of design and support are integrated and geared towards meeting the overall maintenance concept .
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