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<center><i>Handbook of Performability Engineering, ed. K. B. Misra, Springer, pp. 81-104, 2008.</i>

<br><h2>Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability</h2>
<br><br><b>Peter Sandborn</b><br>
<b>Jessica Myers</b><br>
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)<br>
Department of Mechanical Engineering<br>
University of Maryland<br>
College Park, MD 20742<br>
 

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<b>Abstract:</b>

<p>Sustainability means keeping an existing
system operational and maintaining the ability to
manufacture and field versions of the system that
satisfy the original requirements. Sustainability
also includes manufacturing and fielding revised
versions of the system that satisfy evolving
requirements, which often requires the replacement
of technologies used in the original system with
newer technologies. Technology sustainment
analysis encompasses the ramifications of
reliability on system management and costs via
sparing, availability and warranty. Sustainability
also requires the management of technology
obsolescence (forecasting, mitigation and strategic
planning) and addresses roadmapping,
surveillance, and value metrics associated with
technology insertion planning.
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