Systems Maintainability

This text introduces the principles of maintainability, from the point of view of engineering, mathematics and management, placing the topic in the systems life cycle. This has been achieved by introducing concepts, measures and methodologies for the maintainability prediction and assessment and finally the tools for trade-off between maintainability and other system related attributes are given. A large number of numerical examples are given together with approximately ten case studies related to world-renown systems with the aim of demonstrating the application and importance of maintainability issues in design and operation. The book should be of interest to systems designers in aerospace, defence, nuclear, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, and graduate and postgraduate engineering students.