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Design For Maintainability In Developing Communities—A Case Study On The Uros Islands, Thomas Barlow
Design For Maintainability In Developing Communities—A Case Study On The Uros Islands, Thomas Barlow
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Designing products for developing communities has exposed many of the underlying assumptions that engineers from developed nations have during the design process. There has been much written about these underlying assumptions in order to create a better framework for designing for developing communities. One unexplored, yet important area is the universality of common maintainability principles used in developed countries when designing products used in developing communities. Such principles include: simplicity, diagnosability, standardization of parts, modular subassemblies, minimizing assembly and disassembly parts, labeling components, increased life of moving parts, manuals, and simplifying tools needed for repairs [1]–[3]. The purpose of this …