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

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  • Khan, Samir
  • Phillips, Paul
  • Jennions, Ian
  • Hockley, Chris

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This paper presents the first part of a state of the art review on the No Fault Found (NFF) phenomenon. The aim has been to compile a systematic reference point for burgeoning NFF literature, and to provide a comprehensive overview for gaining an understanding of NFF knowledge and concepts. Increasing systems complexities have seen a rise in the number of unknown failures that are being reported during operational service. Units tagged as ‘NFF’ are evidence that a serviceable component was removed, and attempts to troubleshoot the root cause have been unsuccessful. There are many reasons on how these failures manifest themselves and these papers describe the prominent issues that have persisted across a variety of industrial applications and processes for decades. This article, in particular, deals with the impact of NFF from an organizational culture and human factors point of view. It also highlights recent developments in NFF standards, its financial implications and safety concerns.

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  • Khan, Samir & Phillips, Paul & Jennions, Ian & Hockley, Chris, 2014. "No Fault Found events in maintenance engineering Part 1: Current trends, implications and organizational practices," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 123(C), pages 183-195.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:123:y:2014:i:c:p:183-195
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.11.003
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