What are the Roles and

Importance of Reliability ,
Maintenance, Maintainability
and Quality in Aviation?
“Aircraft is a complex system’’
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- Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach ,

Sadraey, M.H.
RELIABILITY

o What issues we need to address to achieve

reliability?
￭ Engineering design 3

￭ Materials
￭ Manufacturing operations
￭ Maintenance.
RELIABILITY

o How to address these issues?

￭ Information
￭ Modeling 4

￭ Analysis
￭ Testing data
￭ Additional analysis,
￭ Often additional testing
￭ Reengineering
RELIABILITY - Objectives

o Understanding the failure

phenomena 5

o Estimating and predicting reliability

o Optimization
 RELIABILITY,
MAINTENANCE,
MAINTAINABILITY,
AVAILABILITY AND
QUALITY
RELIABILITY

o reliability of a product or system conveys

the concept of dependability, successful
operation or performance, and the absence 7

of failure.
o Reliability of a product (system) is the
probability that the item will perform its
intended function throughout a specified
time period when operated in a normal (or
stated) environment.
MAINTENANCE

o Maintenance comprises any actions

that alter a product or system in 8
such a way as to keep it in an
operational condition or to return it
to an operational condition if it is in a
failed condition.
MAINTENANCE

➢ Corrective maintenance includes all action to

return a system from a failed to an operating or
available state. 9
✓ quantified as the mean time to repair (MTTR)
▪ Preparation Time
▪ Active Maintenance Time
▪ mean active repair time (MART) or
mean active corrective
maintenance time (MACMT)
▪ Delay Time ( logistics time)
MAINTENANCE

➢ Preventive maintenance seeks to retain the

system in an operational or available state by
preventing failures from occurring. 10
✓ Servicing
✓ cleaning and lubrication
✓ inspection to find
✓ rectify incipient failures
➢ Measured by the time taken to perform the
specified maintenance tasks and their
specified frequency.
MAINTAINABILITY

o the probability that a failed system can be

made operable in a specified period of time
(Kapur and Lamberson, 1977) 11

o maintainability of a system is clearly

governed by the design. The design
determines features such as accessibility,
ease of test, diagnosis and repair and
requirements for calibration, lubrication and
other preventive maintenance actions.
AVAILABILITY

o The time taken to repair failures and

to carry out routine preventive 12
maintenance removes the system
from the available state.
✓ Inherent Availability : CM
✓ Achieved Availability : CM and PM
✓ Operational Availability : CM,PM and all types
of downtime.
QUALITY

o Some other quality characteristics are conformance

(to standards and to specifications), performance,
features, aesthetics, durability, serviceability 13
(basically the speed and competence of repair
work), repairability, and availability (the probability
that a product or system is operational).
o Many of these are related to R&M, and some of these
(e.g., conformance, performance and availability) are
issues that also may be addressed in a case whose
primary thrust is reliability or maintenance.
 Two Basic
approaches to
Maintenance
Process-oriented Approach

✓ Hard time (HT)

✓ On-condition (OC) 15

✓ Condition monitoring (CM)

Task oriented Approach

✓ Airframe systems tasks

✓ Structural item tasks 16

✓ Zonal tasks
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MSG – 2 Approach
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▹ Review the Basic Maintenance
Program Lecture for other 24
information about Maintenance
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