MAINTAINABILITY ANALYSIS

 Definition Of Terms.
 How To Measure Maintainability.
 Factors That Affect Maintainability.
 Improving maintainability
 Importance of doing maintenance.
 Conclusion.
 Definition Of Terms

•MAINTAINABILITY refers to the ease with which maintenance activities can be

performed on an asset or equipment. Its purpose is to measure the probability that a piece of
equipment in a failed state can be restored to normal operating conditions after undergoing
maintenance.
•PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
 This is the maintenance efforts done before failure of Equipment.
•BREAKDOWN MAINTENANCE
This is the maintenance efforts done when the equipment is at failure state
Reliability vs. Maintainability
Reliability analysis and maintainability analysis involve
similar processes but are designed to measure distinct
results.
Reliability analysis attempts to measure the time a system
will function before it needs to be repaired.
Maintainability analysis seeks to determine the amount of
time required to repair a system once it fails.
How to measure maintainability.
THE MAINTAINABILITY ANALYSIS primarily focuses
on how easy a product is to repair once it fails. This is
closely related to the Human Factors Analysis because a
large part of the repair process involves the user.
During this analysis, we will analyze the product for ease of
maintenance and calculate the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
for the product, a measure of the average repair time. This is
calculated by averaging the repair times for each individual
replaceable assembly, weighted by failure rate
To measure the maintainability of an asset, you need to be
able to quantify the amount of effort that is put into
performing maintenance on that asset. While there are many
methods to calculate the effort exerted the most common way
is simply by calculating the average time it takes to repair a
piece of equipment. This might sound familiar because you
are measuring the mean time to repair (MTR), which is also
typically used as a performance indicator metric.
the most common way is simply by calculating the average time
it takes to repair a piece of equipment. This might sound familiar
because you are measuring the mean time to repair (MTR), which
is also typically used as a performance indicator metric.
MTR = Total downtime (hours) / Number of failure events
Total downtime is the total time it takes to repair the asset and
bring it back online, and the number of failure events is the total
number of breakdowns that an asset experienced.
A lower MTR would correspond to a higher level of
maintainability and, conversely, maintainable assets take less
time to repair.
FACTORS THAT AFFECT MAINTAINABILITY

Better training for your team

Training your team is crucial to the maintainability of your assets.
Their understanding and attitude towards machine repairs will
determine the quality of work performed.
Standardizing equipment and inventory
By standardizing the equipment and inventory in your facility, you
improve interchangeability. The implications of interchangeability
are faster repairs and reducing the amount of time your assets spend
offline after a failure.
•Maintenance drawings and checklists
Better documentation of asset knowledge and procedures will boost
the maintainability of your assets since repairs will be more
standardized and repeatable.
•Standardizing equipment and inventory
By standardizing the equipment and inventory in your facility, you
improve interchangeability. The implications of interchangeability are
faster repairs and reducing the amount of time your assets spend
offline after a failure.
Increasing planned (vs. unplanned) maintenance
Increasing planned and preventive maintenance will reduce
the amount of unscheduled downtime of your assets.
Improving maintainability
Improving the process of actually doing repairs increases
the maintainability of an asset and of the plant. While
benchmark MTR values vary across different types of
equipment used in different industries, working to keep
MTRs low is a basic step to improving maintainability.
Properly documented repair procedures and availability of
repair tools and materials can significantly reduce the time it
takes to restore broken down equipment. A computerized
maintenance management system (CMMS) can help to not
only keep accurate MTR records but also more efficiently
document repair history data. Such historical records can
increase the maintenance team’s ability to repair assets more
efficiently.
Importance of doing maintenance
Maintenance influence quality of products produce by the
equipment of facility.
Maintenance determines the economical operation of the
production systems.
Maintenance help the organization meet customers’ delivery
promises.
Maintenance improves the safety of the machine and
operations
Conclusion
Overall, the maintainability of your equipment and systems
depends on providing better training to your team, more
documentation of procedures, and increasing planned
maintenance. In conjunction, these factors will improve
availability and reliability, and simultaneously decrease
downtime for your equipment.