... Serviceability (DFS) (Makino et al., 198 9; Gershenson and Ishii, 199 3; Subramani and Dewhurst, 199 3) and Design for Maintainability (Klement, 199 3; Kusiak and Lee, 199 7). These approaches to the problem ... They belong to the general area of Design for Product Retirement/Recovery (Ishii et al., 199 4; Navin-Chandra, 199 4; Kriwet et al., 199 5; Zhang et al., 199 7; Gungor and Gupta, 199 9). Using more ... general terms, Design for Maintainability. In this context, Design for Reliability (Rao, 199 2; Birolini, 199 3; Wallace and Stephenson, 199 6) also plays a leading role. The reliability of the...