Preliminary Steps

Before Maintainability Analysis stage you have to provide the following information using other RAM Commander modules:

•	The Product Tree (Bill of materials)

•	The failure rates associated with each replaceable item using the reliability prediction module

Then you may switch to Maintainability mode to start working with maintainability libraries and perform maintainability calculations.

To switch to the Maintainability Mode:

1.	Activate the Product tree view.

2.	From the Project menu, choose Configuration.

3.	In the Project Configuration dialog box, select Maintainability as the current processor, and choose OK.

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Select the Maintainability button in the Product tree view button bar.

4. RAM Commander product tree view, item data dialog, reports list and other menus and windows will change their appearance to accommodate maintainability mode.

Now you may set some initial configuration parameters and libraries in order to start the analysis:

1. Set up/customize organizational level names

2. Set Mct max calculation method

3. Set up Maintainability libraries:

•	Standard Tasks Library

•	Standard Times Librariy

•	Skills/Equipment/Materials libraries

Then you may proceed to the Maintainability Analysis.