IEC 60300-3-10:2001 pdf Dependability management – Part 3-10: Application guide – Maintainability
1 Scope
This International Standard, which forms part of the series of standards in the IEC 60300-3
series, is the application guide for maintainability. It can be used to implement a
maintainability programme covering the initiation, development and in-service phases of a
product, which form part of the tasks described in IEC 60300-2.
It provides guidance on how the maintenance aspects of the tasks should be considered in
order to achieve optimum maintainability. It should be noted that the full programme described
in this standard would only be applied to a major complex product with the potential for long-
term usage.
For less complex maintainable products, a simpler programme should be adopted by tailoring
the programme to suit the degree of complexity and the requirements of the customer. The
standard uses other IEC standards and guides, notably IEC 60706, as reference documents
or tools to provide more detail as to how a task should be undertaken.
Contracts between customer and supplier will vary widely according to conditions and
circumstances in different industries. This standard is written on the premise that a product is
to be developed by a contractor from a basic concept for the particular requirements of a user
when the product is considered to be a development item (DI). However, in many instances,
where a product already exists and needs little or no development effort; it is a Non-
development item (NDI) and the full maintainability programme as described in this standard
will not be required. However, the principles laid down in the standard can be applied as
required, by tailoring the maintainability programme to suit the needs of the project.
2 Normative references
The following normative documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text,
constitute provisions of this part of IEC 60300. For dated references, subsequent
amendments to, or revisions of, any of these publications do not apply. However, parties to
agreements based on this this part of IEC 60300 are encouraged to investigate the possibility
of applying the most recent editions of the normative documents indicated below. For undated
references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies. Members of ISO
and IEC maintain registers of currently valid International Standards.
IEC 60050(191), International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) – Chapter 191: Dependability
and quality of service
IEC 60300-1, Dependability management – Part 1: Dependability programme management
IEC 60300-2:1995, Dependability management – Part 2: Dependability programme elements and tasks
IEC 60300-3 (all sections), Dependability management – Part 3: Application guide
IEC 60300-3-2, Dependability management – Part 3: Application guide – Section 2: Collection
of dependability data from the field
IEC 60300-3-3, Dependability management – Part 3: Application guide – Section 3: Life cycle costing
IEC 60300-3-9, Dependability management – Part 3: Application guide – Section 9: Risk
analysis of technological systems
IEC 60300-3-11, Dependability management – Part 3-11: Application guide – Reliability
centred maintenance
IEC 60706 (all parts), Guide on maintainability of equipment
IEC 60706-2, Guide on maintainability of equipment. Part 2 – Section Five: Maintainability
studies during the design phase
IEC 60706-3, Guide on maintainability of equipment. Part 3 – Sections Six and Seven.
Verification and collection, analysis and presentation of data
IEC 60706-4, Guide on maintainability of equipment – Part 4 – Section 8: Maintenance and
maintenance support planning
IEC 60706-5, Guide on maintainability of equipment – Part 5: Section 4: Diagnostic testing
IEC 60812, Analysis techniques for system reliability – Procedure for failure mode and effects
analysis (FMEA)
IEC 60863, Presentation of reliability, maintainability and availability predictions
IEC 61025, Fault tree analysis (FTA)
IEC 61160:1992, Formal design review Amendment 1 (1994)
3 Definitions and acronyms
For the purposes of this standard, the definitions given in IEC 60050(191) and the following apply.
3.1 Definitions
3.1.1 maintainability (performance)
the ability of an item under given conditions of use, to be retained in, or restored to, a state in
which it can perform a required function, when maintenance is performed under given
conditions and using stated procedures and resources
NOTE The term “maintainability” is also used as a measure of maintainability performance (see 191-13-01).[IEV 191-02-07]
IEC 60300-3-10:2001 pdf Dependability management – Part 3-10: Application guide – Maintainability
