Dr. Indra Gunawan, Gippsland Chapter Chair and Senior Lecturer & Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering, Monash University, will speak and provide a workshop at the 17^th Annual Maintenance Management Conference, Dubai, UAE, 25-29 September 2011.

The workshop titled ‘Basic Quantitative Skills for Maintenance and Reliability Management’ will cover the:

• logic of certainty
• elements of probability theory
• probability distributions
• Weibull analysis

The workshop provides methods to analyse the causes of failure such as the fault tree analysis; review and will discuss the probability distributions to evaluate the maintenance and reliability performance. It will include present case studies on maintenance and reliability management with the applications of Weibull plot and function.

Indra will also make a presentation on ‘Improving Scheduling and Planning in Maintenance Through a Design Structure Matrix (DSM)’. Key issues will be discussed including using DSM to present efficient mapping of tasks clearly and concisely regardless of size, explaining DSM methodology: Path Searching, Powers of the Adjacency Matrix, Reachability Matrix, and how DSM methods can reduce rework in an engineering project.  

Further Information http://www.iirme.com/maintenance/home

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Indra has an abstract of his Paper titled ‘Review on Scheduling Techniques for Asset Management’ in the forthcoming edition of the Asset Journal, due to be released in late August 2011.