Maintenance of Supplies and Equipment. Objective Determination of Maintenance Factors.
Abstract
The maintenance factor of a repair part represents the expected number of failures that will occur per year from a group of 100 end items containing the part. Maintenance factors must be tailored to a particular deployment area and situation if the estimates of the number of failures is expected to be accurate and hence useful. To date very little guidance has been presented regarding the actual estimation process. The report gives a philosophical discussion of the maintenance factor as a system parameter and is intended to guide the maintenance engineer's thinking during the estimation process. A checklist is presented which is designed to help insure that pertinent areas that could contribute to failures of a repair part are not overlooked, but at the same time are not given too much emphasis during estimation. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 07, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0737592
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army Materiel Command