Maintainability Evaluation Based on the Product Disassembly Analysis Available to Purchase

Maintainability is an important product characteristic related to the product life-time operation and the operation cost. Maintainability increases product’s serviceability and decreases product’s maintenance cost. Product disassembability is one of the key factors of product maintainability. A disassembly is normally required for product repairing, product remanufacturing, components reusing, and materials recycling in the product life-cycle management. A better disassembly plan will improve efficiency of these processes for product maintainability. This paper introduces the product maintainability analysis based on the disassembly sequence evaluation. An AND/OR graph based disassembly analysis and the cost-based evaluation are introduced for the evaluation of product maintainability. The proposed data structure and methods are discussed. The system developed is demonstrated using a case study.