Avionics Design for Maintainability - Are We Gaining or Losing?

730882

02/01/1973

Event
National Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing Meeting
Authors Abstract
Content
An overview of avionics maintainability, as indicated from airline operating statistics, shows improvement in some elements and degradation in others, but a slowly degrading overall trend. Maintainability elements and trends are identified and discussed.
Principal problems are the shop labor expended for the high proportion of removed equipment found to be in satisfactory condition, and the increasing line maintenance effort required by wide-body aircraft.
Built-in test equipment (BITE) or monitoring within the system, if properly designed, appears to be a good approach to improve this situation. Design guidance for effective BITE or monitoring objectives is provided.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/730882
Pages
8
Citation
Ellison, T., "Avionics Design for Maintainability - Are We Gaining or Losing?," SAE Technical Paper 730882, 1973, https://doi.org/10.4271/730882.
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Publisher
Published
Feb 1, 1973
Product Code
730882
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English