It is challenging for maintenance of activities to be assured during products’ life cycle when poor maintenance is the case. Poor maintenance of engineered products will lead to an increment in cost and time is fundamental in the development of maintainability tasks for engineering firms. Maintenance design had played a significant role in complex designing of engineering products. This research presents a critical approach to evaluate and determine a maintainability index using the assembly principle. Normally, time is a critical indicator and parameter being utilized to measure maintenance; however, minimal efforts have been focused on assembly components and the principle of assembly. In the past literature works, customer study and survey on the effects of operators’ skills have been done. In this research, maintainability index is determined. Every assembly type is weighted with reference to features such as assembly direction, costs and disassemblability. Resultantly, this research seeks to enhance the efficiency of maintenance of engineered products.
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Jain Emadi, “An Assembly Approach for Determining the Maintainability index for Engineered Products”, Journal of Machine and Computing, vol.1, no.1, pp. 039-047, January 2021. doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202101005.
