prBAS EN IEC 60300-3-10:2025

IEC 60300-3-10:2025 gives guidance to managers and technical and financial personnel on the basic principles of maintainability and maintenance activities that are applicable to any organization. This document describes: - the value and nature of maintainability and maintenance characteristics; - the interfaces between maintainability and related dependability attributes of reliability, availability and supportability, as well as potential trade-offs that can be made through the interfaces during the life cycle of an item; - the elements of maintainability and maintenance programmes; - the application of maintainability and maintenance programmes throughout the life cycle; - techniques to ensure maintainability and maintenance requirements are met; - maintainability and maintenance data and information management. This document is applicable to equipment, software, services, or structures, and gives guidance on matters of common interest to any business supplying, purchasing or sustaining products, services, or structures. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2001. This edition constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition: - more guidance is included on establishing a maintenance programme; - some guidance on support and supportability has been removed and has been moved to IEC 60300-3-14.