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Design for maintenance: basic concepts and review of literature

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  • Anoop Desai
  • Anil Mital

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This paper endeavours to present basic concepts and an outline of current research in the field of designing products/systems to enable ease of maintenance. The process of product maintenance is often a necessary evil since it ensures smooth performance of equipment, often at the cost of equipment downtime. Products that are easy to maintain entail less downtime. This means that they can be maintained at less expense, in less time and with less effort. There is a considerable amount of mathematical research conducted on this topic. Researchers have tended to focus on evolving mathematical models to predict maintenance schedules, downtime, etc. Much of that research is reactive in nature and is not useful as far as design is concerned. A methodology that enables product design for maintenance is conspicuous by its absence. This paper focuses on research efforts that can be directly helpful in the evolution of such a methodology.

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  • Anoop Desai & Anil Mital, 2006. "Design for maintenance: basic concepts and review of literature," International Journal of Product Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(1), pages 77-121.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:3:y:2006:i:1:p:77-121
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    Cited by:

    1. Siri Willskytt & Sergio A. Brambila-Macias, 2020. "Design Guidelines Developed from Environmental Assessments: A Design Tool for Resource-Efficient Products," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-38, June.
    2. Munten, Pauline & Vanhamme, Joëlle, 2023. "To reduce waste, have it repaired! The quality signaling effect of product repairability," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).
    3. Jyh-Rong Chou, 2021. "A Scoping Review of Ontologies Relevant to Design Strategies in Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-27, September.

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