Today's power station systems are commonly installed as outdoor operational systems. With the increasing complexity and operational advanced manufacturing technologies, the maintenance of these technologies is becoming very effective on the ability of the organization to compete. Motivated by the increasing significance of the different facets of maintenance in today's outdoor system manufacturing organizations (renewable power stations), the objective of this research is to systematically examine the literature dealing with the maintenance performance and their effects. Specifically, this literature review focuses on maintenance performance effect on the system design configurations (in/outdoor system). A different researches on maintenance performance effects, was utilized for the purpose of this research. As a result of this literature review, three field in maintenance performance effects are investigated. The most complexity field is the outdoor system effect on maintenance performance one. It's commonly known that the configuration of the outdoor system design (power station) and the overall system performance are affected by some environmental factors. Other literature review fields cover the research work which has investigated the effect of maintenance performance on system design out maintenance (DOM) and system preventive maintenance(PM) intervals. This comprehensive review may help researchers to identify the future research opportunities in the field. Also it's been concluded that the findings derived from this investigation can be used to understand the different approaches of maintenance performance effects on system redesign, system preventive maintenance intervals and system design configuration as well as few researches offered an outdoor design configuration (power station) effect on maintenance performance.