The impact of no fault found on through-life engineering services

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-153

  Hockley, Chris ^a   Phillips, Paul ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maintenance; Maintenance quality and effectiveness; No fault found; Operations management; Production engineering; Through life engineering services

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; COMPLEX ENGINEERING SYSTEM; ENGINEERING SERVICE; MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS; MAINTENANCE QUALITY; NO FAULT FOUND; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MAINTENANCE; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84864869222     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552511211244184     Document Type: Article

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