No Fault Found events in maintenance engineering Part 1: Current trends, implications and organizational practices

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 183-195

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

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost; Human factors; Maintenance procedures; No fault found; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COSTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MAINTENANCE;

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS; MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES; NO FAULT FOUND; OPERATIONAL SERVICE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; STATE-OF-THE ART REVIEWS; SYSTEMS COMPLEXITY;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84892364913     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.11.003     Document Type: Review

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