International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS): An international reliability and maintainability conference event

2008 ARS, India
 Tutorial 2

Reliability Engineering: Management Overview and Vision

Even though reliability methods can be "esoteric," reliability has a direct impact on the financial performance of the company! Therefore, it is necessary for some of the specialized concepts and capabilities of reliability engineering to be communicated effectively with managers and other individuals in the organization.

This tutorial, geared toward both managers and practitioners, begins by examining basic reliability concepts through examples tied directly to financial consequences. It examines reliability and economics from both a product development and maintenance perspective.

Pantelis Vassiliou
 ReliaSoft Corporation
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Pantelis Vassiliou directs and coordinates ReliaSoft's R&D efforts to deliver state-of-the-art software tools for applying reliability engineering concepts and methodologies. He is the original architect of ReliaSoft's Weibull++, a renowned expert and lecturer on Reliability Engineering and ReliaSoft's founder. He is currently spearheading the development of new technologically advanced products and services. In addition, he also consults, trains and lectures on reliability engineering topics to Fortune 1000 companies worldwide. Mr. Vassiliou holds an M.S. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Arizona.