講座題目: A Brief History of Reliability Engineering: From Practice to Theory

講座時間：12月12日下午1點30      講座地點：科技館二樓扇形會議廳

主持人：楊偉

 主講人：Loon Ching Tang(新加坡工程院院士、新加坡國立大學工業系統工程與管理系教授)

講座摘要: We first give an historical account of the origin of reliability engineering so as to understand how it has impacted the development of various major technological breakthroughs in the last 70 years. Knowing the past and how we get here today, we follow up by discussing some challenges that were motivated by real world problems. The main objective of the talk is to provide an appraisal of the state of development of reliability and share some of my personal journey in this area. At the same time, we also hope to provoke further thoughts and ideas on how we should respond to these challenges.

主講人簡介: Dr Loon Ching TANG is currently a professor of Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management at the National University of Singapore and a Fellow of the 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 excellence; especially through better management of engineering assets. He is currently a fellow of ISEAM, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Quality & Reliability Engineering International and Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, editorial review board member of Journal of Quality Technology and ASCE-ASME Journal of Risks and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.