Dependability management - Part 3-10: Application guide - Maintainability and maintenance (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)

IEC 60300-3-10:2025 gives guidance to managers and technical and financial personnel on the basic principles of maintainability and maintenance activities that are applicable to any organization.
This document describes:
- the value and nature of maintainability and maintenance characteristics;
- the interfaces between maintainability and related dependability attributes of reliability, availability and supportability, as well as potential trade-offs that can be made through the interfaces during the life cycle of an item;
- the elements of maintainability and maintenance programmes;
- the application of maintainability and maintenance programmes throughout the life cycle;
- techniques to ensure maintainability and maintenance requirements are met;
- maintainability and maintenance data and information management.
This document is applicable to equipment, software, services, or structures, and gives guidance on matters of common interest to any business supplying, purchasing or sustaining products, services, or structures.
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2001. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
- more guidance is included on establishing a maintenance programme;
- some guidance on support and supportability has been removed and has been moved to IEC 60300-3-14.

Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement - Teil 3-10: Anwendungsleitfaden – Instandhaltbarkeit und Unterstützbarkeit (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)

Gestion de la sûreté de fonctionnement - Partie 3-10: Guide d’application - Maintenabilité et maintenance (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)

IEC 60300-3-10:2025 fournit des recommandations aux responsables ainsi qu’au personnel technique et financier sur les principes de base de la maintenabilité et des activités de maintenance qui sont applicables à toute organisation.
Ce document décrit:
- la valeur et la nature des caractéristiques de maintenabilité et de maintenance;
- les interfaces entre la maintenabilité et les attributs de fiabilité, de disponibilité et de supportabilité associés à la sûreté de fonctionnement, ainsi que les compromis qui peuvent être faits au niveau des interfaces au cours du cycle de vie d’une entité;
- les éléments des programmes de maintenabilité et de maintenance;
- l’application de programmes de maintenabilité et de maintenance tout au long du cycle de vie;
- les techniques pour s’assurer que les exigences de maintenabilité et de maintenance sont respectées;
- la gestion des données et des informations relatives à la maintenabilité et la maintenance.
Ce document s’applique aux équipements, logiciels, services ou structures et fournit des recommandations sur des questions d’intérêt commun à toute entreprise qui fournit, achète ou maintient des produits, des services ou des structures.
Cette deuxième édition annule et remplace la première édition parue en 2001. Cette édition constitue une révision technique.
Cette édition comprend les changements techniques significatifs suivants par rapport à l'édition précédente:
- ajout de recommandations supplémentaires concernant l’établissement d’un programme de maintenance;
- suppression et déplacement de certaines recommandations concernant le support et la supportabilité vers l’IEC 60300-3-14.

Vodenje zagotovljivosti - 3-10. del: Navodilo za uporabo - Vzdrževalnost in vzdrževanje (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)

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Published
Public Enquiry End Date
25-Jan-2024
Publication Date
18-Sep-2025
Technical Committee
Current Stage
6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
Start Date
17-Sep-2025
Due Date
22-Nov-2025
Completion Date
19-Sep-2025
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SIST EN IEC 60300-3-10:2025
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2025
Vodenje zagotovljivosti - 3-10. del: Navodilo za uporabo - Vzdrževalnost in
vzdrževanje (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)
Dependability management - Part 3-10: Application guide - Maintainability and
maintenance (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)
Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement - Teil 3-10: Anwendungsleitfaden – Instandhaltbarkeit und
Unterstützbarkeit (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)
Gestion de la sûreté de fonctionnement - Partie 3-10: Guide d’application - Maintenabilité
et maintenance (IEC 60300-3-10:2025)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 60300-3-10:2025
ICS:
03.120.01 Kakovost na splošno Quality in general
21.020 Značilnosti in načrtovanje Characteristics and design of
strojev, aparatov, opreme machines, apparatus,
equipment
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 60300-3-10

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM September 2025
ICS 03.100.40; 03.120.01
English Version
Dependability management - Part 3-10: Application guide -
Maintainability and maintenance
(IEC 60300-3-10:2025)
Gestion de la sûreté de fonctionnement - Partie 3-10: Guide Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement - Teil 3-10:
d'application - Maintenabilité et maintenance Anwendungsleitfaden - Instandhaltbarkeit und
(IEC 60300-3-10:2025) Unterstützbarkeit
(IEC 60300-3-10:2025)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2025-08-20. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
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Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
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Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

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© 2025 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN IEC 60300-3-10:2025 E

European foreword
The text of document 56/2059/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 60300-3-10, prepared by TC 56
"Dependability" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2026-09-30
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2028-09-30
document have to be withdrawn
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national committee. A
complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CENELEC website.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60300-3-10:2025 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standard indicated:
IEC 60300-1 NOTE Approved as EN IEC 60300-1
IEC 60300-3-2 NOTE Approved as EN 60300-3-2
IEC 60300-3-3 NOTE Approved as EN 60300-3-3
IEC 60300-3-4 NOTE Approved as EN IEC 60300-3-4
IEC 60300-3-11 NOTE Approved as EN 60300-3-11
IEC 60300-3-12 NOTE Approved as EN 60300-3-12
IEC 60300-3-14 NOTE Approved as EN IEC 60300-3-14
IEC 60300-3-16 NOTE Approved as EN 60300-3-16
IEC 60706-5 NOTE Approved as EN 60706-5
IEC 60812 NOTE Approved as EN IEC 60812
IEC 61025 NOTE Approved as EN 61025
IEC 61078 NOTE Approved as EN 61078
IEC 61165 NOTE Approved as EN 61165
IEC 61709 NOTE Approved as EN 61709
IEC 62402 NOTE Approved as EN IEC 62402
IEC 62508 NOTE Approved as EN 62508
IEC 62740 NOTE Approved as EN 62740
IEC 62741 NOTE Approved as EN 62741
IEC 62960 NOTE Approved as EN IEC 62960
ISO 9000 NOTE Approved as EN ISO 9000
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1  Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod),
the relevant EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2  Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available
here: www.cencenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60050-192 - International electrotechnical vocabulary - - -
Part 192: Dependability
IEC 60300-3-10 ®
Edition 2.0 2025-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Dependability management -
Part 3-10: Application guide - Maintainability and maintenance
ICS 03.100.40; 03.120.01 ISBN 978-2-8327-0569-8

IEC 60300-3-10:2025-07(en)
IEC 60300-3-10:2025  IEC 2025
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 7
3.1 Terms and definitions. 7
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 9
4 Maintainability and maintenance overview . 10
4.1 Description of maintainability . 10
4.2 Description of maintenance . 10
4.3 Principles . 10
4.4 Benefits . 11
4.5 Interfaces. 11
4.5.1 General . 11
4.5.2 Effect of maintainability and maintenance on reliability . 12
4.5.3 Effect of maintainability and maintenance on supportability and support . 12
4.5.4 Effect of maintainability and maintenance on availability . 13
4.5.5 Effect of maintainability and maintenance on life cycle cost . 13
5 Manager responsibility . 13
5.1 Overview . 13
5.2 Maintenance policy . 14
6 Specifying for maintainability and maintenance. 15
6.1 Defining requirements . 15
6.2 Characteristics of maintainable items . 16
6.3 Measures of maintainability . 17
6.3.1 Overview . 17
6.3.2 Quantitative measures of maintainability . 17
6.3.3 Qualitative measures of maintainability . 20
6.3.4 Measures of testability . 22
6.4 Measures of maintenance effectiveness . 23
7 Maintainability programme . 24
7.1 Overview . 24
7.2 Plan the maintainability programme . 24
7.2.1 Establishing the context . 24
7.2.2 Define the objectives and scope . 25
7.2.3 Plan maintainability activities and associated resources . 25
7.3 Maintainability activities . 26
7.3.1 Modelling . 26
7.3.2 Allocation . 26
7.3.3 Analysis . 27
7.3.4 Prediction . 28
7.3.5 Trade-off studies . 29
7.3.6 Measurement . 30
7.4 Perform maintainability activities . 31
7.5 Review of maintainability activities . 31
8 Maintenance programme . 32
IEC 60300-3-10:2025  IEC 2025
8.1 Overview . 32
8.2 Planning the maintenance programme . 33
8.2.1 Establish the context . 33
8.2.2 Maintenance concept . 33
8.2.3 Establish management arrangements and resources . 34
8.3 Establishing the maintenance tasks . 35
8.3.1 Maintenance analysis . 35
8.3.2 Task packaging . 38
8.3.3 Scheduling . 38
8.4 Maintenance procedures . 39
8.5 Performing maintenance . 40
8.6 Data collection and maintenance improvement . 42
9 Managing maintainability and maintenance over the life cycle . 43
9.1 General . 43
9.2 Concept stage. 43
9.2.1 Overview . 43
9.3 Development stage . 44
9.3.1 Maintainability design . 44
9.3.2 Maintenance and support design . 46
9.3.3 Design reviews . 47
9.4 Realization stage . 47
9.4.1 Manufacturing .
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