Designing mechanical systems for efficient disassembly improves their maintainability. Issues related to design disassembly for maintainability analysis of an evolving mechanical system design are discussed. Procedures and methodologies for the identification of disassembly sequence, animation of human technicians in performing the disassembly sequence, tool selection. time and cost analysis. and human factors analysis of the disassembly sequence are presented. Their software implementation in a maintainability analysis workspace is described and illustrated using a maintenance task example.
Maintainability of the mechanical system should be considered from early stages of the design process to reduce its total life-cycle cost A computer-aided engineering environment that supports maintainability analysis of an evolving mechanical system design in a concurrent engineering environment is presented Its communication with the underlying concurrent engineering environment and capabilities to evaluate maintainability of the mechanical system are described and illustrated Volume 3Number 1
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