The house of reliability

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 420-440

  Braglia, M ^a   Fantoni, G ^a   Frosolini, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Failure modes and effects analysis; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947240186     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656710710740572     Document Type: Article

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