System Safety, Maintainability, and Maintenance for Engineers

10 Maintainability Testing and Demonstration

DOI: 10.1201/9781003365204-10

10.1 Introduction

The primary function of maintainability testing and demonstration is verifying the maintainability features that been designed and built into a product/system [1, 2]. Testing and demonstration also provide the customer with confidence; prior to making production commitments, the equipment design under consideration meets the maintainability-related requirements. Prior to the testing and demonstration phase, the maintainability program’s tasks have been basically analytical. They have provided a certain degree of assurance through steps such as conducting allocations and predictions, developing design criteria, and participating in design reviews that ...