MIR: The use of reliability information flows as a maturity index for quality management

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 439-447

  Sander, Peter C ^a   Brombacher, Aarnout C ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

MATURITY INDEX ON RELIABILITY (MIR); RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0033311993     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199911/12)15:6<439::AID-QRE292>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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