What is guaranteed Maintainability?
It might seem trivial, but the best way to improve reliability is to choose equipment that doesn’t breakdown! At the very least, choose designs that when they do fail they are easy, inexpensive and quick to fix. With the right choices in the beginning, maintenance departments can guarantee maintainability. The field of guaranteed maintainability was coined by Atlanta based consultant, Ed Feldman. There are three enemy to the ability of the maintenance department to guarantee the maintainability of a plant or facility. The first enemy to guaranteed maintainability is buying low bid without regard for experience, specification, use or service. Low bid specifications are seldom designed to exclude major manufacturer’s models just because they didn’t perform in the past. The second enemy is mental laziness where the maintenance people never thought through performance of the assets and cannot identify the best brands of anything based on real data (but they do have opinions about everythin
