Product support logistics based on product design characteristics and operating environment

• To improve the reliability, maintainability, and supportability (RMS) of a product, it is necessary to understand the factors influencing the product performance. This factors can be user environment, human (operator) aspects like training, and technical characteristics of the product. The environmental conditions in which the equipment is to be operated, such as temperature, humidity, dust, road conditions, maintenance facilities, maintenance crew training, operators' skill, etc, often have considerable influence directly on the product reliability and indirectly on the product supportability characteristics. Thus operating environment should be seriously considered while dimensioning product support and service delivery performance strategies, since it will have an impact on operational and maintenance cost and service quality to provide product support plan in an optimal condition. Spare parts are classified, as a product support items whose availability is important when planned or unplanned maintenance is to be carried out. Forecasting the required support/spare parts based on technical characteristics and operating environmental conditions of a system, is the one of the best ways for optimizing unplanned stoppages. This paper discusses about product support (required spare part) logistics based on product design characteristics and operating environment both for conventional and functional products.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Annan samhällsbyggnadsteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering -- Other Civil Engineering (hsv//eng)

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Drift och underhållsteknik

Operation and Maintenance

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