Repairability

Repairability is a measure of the degree to and ease with which a product can be repaired and maintained, usually by end consumers. Repairable products are put in contrast to obsolescence or products designed with planned obsolescence.

The creation of products that can be repaired, and reduce prices for sustainable products is widely supported by European, American and Chinese respondents in the 2020-21 European Investment Bank Climate Survey.

Repairability index

Some private organizations and companies, mostly affiliated with the right to repair movement, assign repairability scores to products as a way of communicating to consumers how easy the product is to repair.

Since 2021 all electronics devices sold in France have been required to report a repairability index (French: Indice de réparabilité) which rates how repairable the product is on a scale from 0 to 10.[1] Products are evaluated on 5 key areas: documentation, disassembly, spare parts availability, spare part pricing, and product specifics.

See also

References
  1. "The French repair index: challenges and opportunities". repair.eu. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
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