Maintainability Analysis is a key element for design teams when designing for continuous improvement, so much so you’ll often find the word ‘Maintainability’ in specialist titles ‘Reliability & Maintainability Manager’ the two functions often go hand-in-hand. How reliable is your system and how do you maintain it?

Where reliability analysis predicts failure rates, maintainability analysis predicts repair times, therefore a high availability (uptime) is maintained if your system is repaired quickly upon failing.