Design for Supportability

from the Perspective of Competitive Advantage

by
Edwin B. Dean

If we use the broadest sense of logistics engineering, then design for supportability is logistics engineering. Unfortunately, because logistics engineering historically has not addressed a number of very important issues, design for supportability is much more. It includes the design for supportability of the system to bring forth, sustain, and retire the product, as well as the design for supportability of the product (Dean, 1993). Gotoh (1991) provides an example through the concept of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as applied to the product production function {produce product}.

Bibliographies

Design for Supportability Bibliography

References

Dean, E. B. (1993). " Genopersistating the System," presented at the AIAA 1993 Aerospace Design Conference, Irvine CA, 16-19 February, AIAA-93-1031.
Gotoh, F. (1991). Equipment Planning for TPM: Maintenance Prevention Design, Productivity Press, Portland OR.

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