In order to make product maintainable, maintainability engineering encourages sufficient focus on product maintenance at early development stage, and systematic maintainability design throughout product development and design. Maintainability and other life cycle aspects should be concurrently design into product. Integrated maintainability information model is established. Based on product assembly information model, the components of integrated maintainability information model, and how to integrate this model with design process model are discussed respectively. With Pro/INTRALINK as product data management platform, an integrated environment which supports concurrent maintainability design and its establishment steps are explored, including configuring basic environment, establishing master information model, defining and managing design flow, which provide and effective methods for concurrent maintainability design.
