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Maintainability is an important attribute in product design, which has a significant impact on reducing product’s whole life cycle costs. Visibility, accessibility, operating space, and comfort are the important factors associated with maintainability in maintenance operations. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation model is constructed to comprehensively evaluate the main factors that affect maintainability. In order to assess accessibility during operation, we classify the accessibility of maintenance equipment in several different levels based on the human accessibility envelope. By literature research, we divide the human view into several different areas to assess the visibility of the repair operation. We use RULA evaluation method to assess maintenance’s comfort in different operating positions and classify them into different levels. For the operational space assessment, we use sweep volumes to evaluate the repair space of the hand during a repair operation. And we also construct an evaluation model base on hierarchical analysis for comprehensive analysis of maintainability. In this paper, we take the carbon ring removal process on an aircraft engine as an example and use our constructed evaluation criteria to assess the serviceability of the repair process.
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This research is supported by Equipment Advanced Research Project (Grant NO. 61400040103), the Open Funding Project of National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering (Grant NO. 6142222190309), the Foundation of National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering (SYFD1700F1801, SYFD180051801), China.
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Ding, S. et al. (2021). Maintenance Feasibility Analysis Based on a Comprehensive Indicator. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Experience and Product Design Across Cultures. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77074-7_4
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