Maintainability Program Plan for the United States Post Office Department.

Abstract

The function of a maintainability program in the United States Post Office Department is to aid in the reduction of downtime and maintenance; this in turn decreases operating cost and increases the efficiency of the system. The several steps needed to implement a maintainability program are set forth and explained in this report. Some of the major steps are specifying performance and maintainability requirements, allocating maintainability parameters, organizing a data collection system, performing trade-offs, maintainability prediction studies and a maintainability demonstration; finally a short discussion of life cycle costing is presented.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0739151

Entities

People

  • Joseph Musarra

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cycles
  • Demonstrations
  • Downtime
  • Efficiency
  • Life Cycles
  • Maintainability
  • Maintenance
  • United States

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design