Loon Ching TANG

In this presentation, we shall give a historical account of degradation models and my personal research journey on this topic over the last 38 years. Much of the research works were motivated from actual industrial projects that I have been involved with. It highlights the need to integrate stochastic modeling with statistical inferences and reliability-centered maintenance strategies so as to realize the value of reliability engineering in asset management. In particular, we outline a journey in the quest for an appropriate model to explain the existence of failure-free life and how it could be applied to systems that demand high availability.

Biography:

Dr Loon Ching TANG is currently professor of Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management at the National University of Singapore and Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in the field of Operations Research in 1992 and has published extensively in areas related to industrial engineering and operations research. He has been presented with a number of best paper awards including the IIE Transactions 2010 Best Application Paper Award and 2012 R.A. Evans/P.K. McElroy Award for the best paper at Annual RAMS. Prof Tang is the main author of the award-winning book: Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts. Besides being active in the forefront of academic research, in the last 30 years, Prof Tang has served as a consultant for many organizations, such as the Ministry of Home Affair, Singapore Power Grid, Republic of Singapore Air Force, Seagate, HP, Phillips, etc, on a wide range of projects aiming at improving organizational and operations efficiency; especially through better management of engineering assets. He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Quality and Reliability Engineering International, editorial review board member of Journal of Quality Technology.