...Andre Diogo Moscheto; Carlos Cziulik; Simão Marcon Junior; Marcos Sulevis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a new approach involving guidelines and supporting techniques that guarantees all needed space for appropriate product maintenance. Design/methodology/approach The approach...

...Zhou Dong; Kang Le; Lv Chuan Purpose Maintainability is a critical design characteristic that shows how well a product can be maintained; maintenance time is a comprehensive parameter of product maintainability design. This paper aims to provide an integrated methodology for complex product...

...Xiangyang Li; Qinhe Gao; Zhili Zhang; Xianxiang Huang Purpose The paper aims to provide an integrated system for collaborative maintenance training of complex equipment based on virtual maintenance and immersive virtual reality environment. Design/methodology/approach An integrated platform...

... and interactive environment for product maintenance. In order to analyze and evaluate the product maintainability in a virtual maintenance environment, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is used. At the early design stage, maintainability influencing factors are analyzed and the whole maintainability evaluation...

... and tools that can be effectively used to plan, quantify and cost maintenance. Design/methodology/approach An integrated platform for maintainability design and verification is designed. A case‐based reasoning method of maintainability design and Extensible Markup Language‐based representation...

...Jack Thornton Emphasizes the importance now placed on maintainability of military aircraft by the US Department of Defense. Describes how Lockheed Martin have used Delmia simulation software to simplify and speed up routine maintenance tasks for the next‐generation joint strike fighter (JSF...

... the necessary data, such as the reliability or mean‐time‐between‐failures of the modules. Presents a method which enables the facility suppliers to calculate the maintenance cost in the use phase, the costs and benefits for the retraction, remanufacturing, reuse and resale of their products as a basis...