No Fault Found events in maintenance engineering Part 2: Root causes, technical developments and future research

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 196-208

  Khan, Samir ^a   Phillips, Paul ^a   Hockley, Chris ^a   Jennions, Ian ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault diagnostics; Maintainability; No fault found; Test equipment; Testability; Troubleshooting failures

Indexed keywords

EQUIPMENT TESTING; MAINTAINABILITY;

FAULT DIAGNOSTICS; FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS; NO FAULT FOUND; POTENTIAL RESEARCHES; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; TEST EQUIPMENTS; TESTABILITY; TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 84892364826     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.10.013     Document Type: Review

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