What Times Go Into Maintainability Issues?
Maintainability and how maintainability and reliability go together are explained in the July 2001 problem. This problem shows how to produce maintainability values for use in reliability and maintainability (RAM) models. The maintainability values obtained describe how long various blocks in a RAM model are down for repairs. Perhaps a more complete representation of the system downtime which drives a metric called time to restore. The longer restoration time represents the position of a buyer because it tells about longer delays (and thus greater expenses) of the equipment which includes: time required for verification, diagnosis, and location of the fault problem, time to locate the part requiring repair, time assigned to logistic delays (external and internal) in procuring parts, time to clear the system for maintenance in hazardous or sterile environments, time to actually make the repair, time to treat the system for return to hazardous or sterile environments, time to verify the
