A systematic method to qualify the repairability of technical products
Streibl, Franz
This publication presents a general analysis of common repair processes and scenarios on
which basis it continues to establish objective parameters to qualify a product's repairability by methods
suitable for technical standardisation.
The concepts revealed in this paper were developed independently to improve the quality of the debate
on repairability within the technical standardisation working group 3 of the joint technical committee 10
of the CEN and CENELEC european standardisation bodies, as well as the respective mirror committee
in the german national standardisation body DIN.
The scope of technical standards does not consider social, economic or legal categories, nor does it
explicitly reflect on the application of current or past repair practices. It is the objective of this paper to
provide technically precise distinctions and clear definitions of the technically relevant aspects involved
in a technical repair process of products, the latter which are necessarily also technical to be subjectable
to technical standardisation.
This is the background for the claim in the title that this paper discusses technical products, which can
therefore also be read as products subject to technical standardisation. A discussion of the legal
application of a respective technical repair standard (or the effects thereof) for the purpose of regulation,
or its socio-economic effects, are not the subject of the current paper.
Is Part Of
Published in: PLATE – Product lifetimes and the environment : 3rd PLATE Conference, September 18–20, 2019 Berlin, Germany, Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin
Published by ISBN 978-3-7983-3125-9
