MIL STD- Maintainability Program for Systems and Equipment

4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
4.1 Maintainability program

The purpose of the Maintainability Program is to improve operational readiness, reduce maintenance manpower needs, reduce life cycle cost and to provide data essential for management. The objective is to assure attainment of the maintainability requirements of the acquisition. The contractor will establish and maintain an effective maintainability program that is planned, integrated, and developed in conjunction with other design, development, and production functions to permit the most cost-effective achievement of overall program objectives. The maintainability program will include the management/technical resources, plans, procedures, schedule, and controls for the work needed to assure achievement of maintainability requirements. Procedures will be established which assure that maintainability engineering is an integral part of the design process, including design changes. The procedures will identify the means by which maintainability engineering contributes to the design of the system or equipment acquisition including its fault detection and diagnostics subsystems at organization , intermediate, and depot levels of application. In addition, the means through which maintainability engineering tasks interface with the logistics support analysis (LSA) process and other related disciplines (i.e., reliability, value engineering, safety engineering, etc.) will be identified. The program will be developed to suit the type of system/equipment, the phase of the procurement (CONCEPT, DEMVAL, FSD, or PROD). and its nature (development, production or modification). The program will be consistent with the criticality of the missions, the severity of the requirements, the complexity of the design, commonality, and the manufacturing techniques required.