Design for maintenance

• Maintenance means performing functions on a product that will help to keep it functioning correctly throughout its life
• Designing for maintenance can mean a variety of things, from the facility to change batteries allowing access into the product to repair or replace worn out components
• Some products, such as personal computers (PCs), are made up of different modules, which allows a module to be repaired or replaced in the even of a fault rather than the entire product
• The system of using modules of computers also means that some modelues can be replaced in order to upgrade as technology improves