Reliability and maintenance modeling with optimization is the most fundamental and interdisciplinary research area that can be applied to every technical and management field. Reliability and Maintenance Modeling with Optimization: Advances and Applications aims at providing the most recent advances and achievements in reliability and maintenance.

The book discusses replacement, repair, and inspection, offers estimation and statistical tests, covers accelerated life testing, explores warranty analysis manufacturing, and includes service reliability.

The targeted readers are researchers interested in reliability and maintenance engineering. The book can serve as supplemental reading in professional seminars for engineers, designers, project managers, and graduate students.

About the Author

Prof. Kimura earned his Ph.D. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2002, and joined the current institute as a lecturer in the same year. He was promoted to a full professor in 2017. During his 15 years academic career, he published 5 book chapters, 21 journal papers and 47 peer-reviewed international conference papers.

Prof. Mizutani moved to Aichi Institute of Technology as an associate professor from Aichi University of Technology in 2016. He published 4 book chapters, 17 journal papers in addition to many international peer-reviewed conference papers.

Prof. Imaizumi received his Ph.D. degree from Aichi Institute of Technology in 1999 after joining Aichi Gakusen University as a teaching assistant. He was promoted to a full professor at the same university in 2012, and published over 70 articles in journals and proceedings.

Prof. Ito joined Tottori University as a full professor in 2017. Prior to joining the current university, he spent almost 33 years in Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Inc. as a technical stuff in the research and development divisions. He published 60 peer-reviews papers during his career in industry and academia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Aichi Institute of Technology in 1999.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367558062
Author Mitsutaka Kimura
Format Paperback
Page Count 356
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g