System Safety, Maintainability, and Maintenance for Engineers

Dr. B.S. Dhillon attended the University of Wales where he received a BS in electrical and electronic engineering and an MS in mechanical engineering. He received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Windsor. He is currently a professor of Engineering Management in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, where he has served as a Chairman/Director of the Mechanical Engineering Department/Engineering Management Program for over 10 years at the same institution. He is the founder of the probability distribution named Dhillon Distribution/Law/Model used by statistical researchers in their publications around the world and he has published over 373 journals, conference proceedings, and articles combined on reliability engineering, maintainability, safety, and engineering management. Dr. Dhillon has served as General Chairman of two international conferences on reliability and quality control and has also served as a consultant to various organizations and bodies and has many years of experience in the industrial sector. At the University of Ottawa, he has been teaching reliability, quality, engineering management, design, and related areas and he has also lectured in over 50 countries.

1. Introduction. 2. Safety, Maintainability, and Maintenance Mathematics. 3. Introduction to Safety.
4. Safety Analysis Methods. 5. Safety Management and Costing. 6. Maintenance, Software, and Robot Safety. 7. Introduction to Maintainability. 8. Maintainability Tools and Specific Maintainability Design-Related Considerations. 9. Maintainability Management and Human Factors in Maintainability. 10. Maintainability Testing and Demonstration. 11. Introduction to Engineering Maintenance. 12. Maintenance Management and Control. 13. Preventive and Corrective Maintenance. 14. Software and Robotic Maintenance. 15. Reliability-Centered Maintenance.