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MEEM Seminar 0809_009

New Developments in Customer-centered Multi-state Reliability with Network & Infrastructure Applications

Abstract

Motivation for customer-centered multi-state systems is presented. The components and the system have a wide range of states in term of their function and performance. Reliability measures should be able to capture the total experience of the customer with the system. Introduction to mathematical development for a general structure function and generation of the generic structure function with lower (upper) boundary points is presented. Some models using Markov and other general stochastic processes are presented. Examples and applications to infrastructure and network applications as well as health systems are developed and presented in this seminar.

Event:	MEEM Seminar 0809_009
Date:	28 August 2008 (Thursday)
Time:	2:30pm (Tea reception at 2:00pm)
Venue:	Room B5-420, 5/F, Academic Building City University of Hong Kong
Speaker:	Dr. Kailash C. KAPUR, P. E. Industrial Engineering University of Washington, USA

About the Speaker

Dr. Kailash [Kal] C. Kapur is a Professor of Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington; He was the Director of Industrial Engineering at the University of Washington from January 1993 to September 1999. He was a Professor and the Director of the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma from 1989-1992 and a professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan from1970-1989. Dr. Kapur received the Ph. D. degree (1969) in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has co-authored the book Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1977. He has done extensive consulting in design of experiments, Taguchi Methods, reliability design and management, statistical process control, quality engineering, and total quality management. He received the Allan Chop Technical Advancement Award from the Reliability Division and the Craig Award from the Automotive Division of American Society for Quality. He is a Fellow of American Society for Quality, a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a registered professional engineer.

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