9 Maintainability Management and Human Factors in Maintainability

DOI: 10.1201/9781003365204-9

9.1 Introduction

Just like in other areas of engineering, management plays an important role in the practice of maintainability engineering. Its tasks range from simply managing maintainability personnel to effective execution of technical maintainability-related tasks. Maintainability management can be examined from different perspectives such as management of maintainability as an engineering discipline, the role maintainability plays at each phase in the life cycle of the system/product being developed, and the place of the maintainability function within the organizational structure [1].

Human factor is an important discipline of engineering ...

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