Industrial Reliability and Safety Engineering

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling. Related topics such as maintenance decision-making and risk and safety modeling are also addressed with the implementation of decision-making techniques. The book provides real-life studies on industrial operations along with solutions. It discusses modeling and optimization of reliability and safety aspects in industry and covers reliability maintenance issues in process industries.

The book goes on to present cost optimization, life cycle costing analysis, and multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) application for risk and safety analysis.

Academic institutions, students, professionals, large companies involved in engineering sciences, research scholars, and investigators working in the domain of Reliability and Safety Engineering and its allied domains will find this book useful.

Dr. Dilbagh Panchal is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India-144011. He works in the area of Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, fuzzy decision making and operation management. He obtained his Bachelor (hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India in 2007 and Masters (Gold medallist) in Manufacturing Technology in 2011 from Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Presently, he oversees three PhD scholars. Seven M. Tech dissertations have been guided by him and two are in progress. He has published 22 research papers in SCI/Scopus indexed journals and ten book chapters have been published by him under a reputed publisher. He has edited two books within his field of expertise and has seven books in progress, and he has attended several international conferences. He is a member of various societies like ORSI, Kolkata, ISTE, New Delhi and IIIE, Mumbai. He is associate editor of the International Journal of System Assurance and Engineering Management (Springer Publication), and regularly reviews many journals such as, International Journal of Industrial and System Engineering (Inderscience), International Journal of Operational Research (Inderscience), OPSERACH (Springer Publication); and Applied Energy (Elsevier publishers).
Prof. Mangey Ram received a Ph.D. with a major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a faculty member for around 14 years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently the Research Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India and Visiting Professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Before joining the Graphic Era, he was a Deputy Manager (Probationary Officer) with Syndicate Bank. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences; Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies; Journal of Graphic Era University; Series Editor of six book series with Elsevier, CRC Press - A Taylor and Francis Group, Walter De Gruyter Publisher Germany, River Publisher and the Guest Editor and Associate Editor with various journals. He has over 250 publications with IEEE, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Emerald, World Scientific and many other national and international journals and conferences. He has also authored/edited over 55 books with international publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, CRC Press - A Taylor and Francis Group, Walter De Gruyter Publisher Germany, and River Publisher. His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics. Dr. Ram is a member of many societies, including a Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Life Member of Operational Research Society of India, Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, and the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has been a member of the organizing committee of several international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He 2009 he was given the “Young Scientist Award” by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, and he has been awarded the “Best Faculty Award” in 2011; “Research Excellence Award” in 2015; and “Outstanding Researcher Award” in 2018 for his significant contribution in academics and research at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India. Recently, he has received the "Excellence in Research of the Year-2021 Award” by the Honourable Chief Minister of Uttarakhand State, India.
Dr. Prasenjit Chatterjee is currently the Dean (Research and Consultancy) at MCKV Institute of Engineering, West Bengal, India. He has over 120 research papers in various international journals and peer reviewed conferences. He has authored and edited more than 22 books on intelligent decision-making, supply chain management, optimization techniques, risk and sustainability modelling. He has received numerous awards including Best Track Paper Award, Outstanding Reviewer Award, Best Paper Award, Outstanding Researcher Award and University Gold Medal. Dr. Chatterjee is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decision Analytics and Intelligent Computing. He has also been the Guest Editor of several special issues in different SCIE/Scopus/ESCI (Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals. He is also the Lead Series Editor of “Smart and Intelligent Computing in Engineering”, Chapman and Hall / CRC Press, Founder and Lead Series Editor of "Concise Introductions to AI and Data Science", Scrivener - Wiley; AAP Research Notes on Optimization and Decision Making Theories; Frontiers of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Apple Academic Press, co-published with CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group and “River Publishers Series in Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering”. Dr. Chatterjee is one of the developers of two multiple-criteria decision-making methods called Measurement of Alternatives and Ranking according to COmpromise Solution (MARCOS) and Ranking of Alternatives through Functional mapping of criterion sub-intervals into a Single Interval (RAFSI).
Dr. Anish Sachdeva is working as a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He obtained his B.Tech.(Industrial Engineering) from Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar (now National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar) in 1994; M.Tech.(Industrial Engineering) from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar in 2003; and Ph.D. (Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), IIT Roorkee in 2008. He has published more than 100 research articles in international journals and conferences of high repute. He has guided 60 M Tech and 12 PhD candidates in pursuing their PhD degree. His academic life includes serving as a peer reviewer in journals, acting as session chair in many international conferences, and conducting several training programs. His areas of interest include Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Advanced Machining, Supply Chain Management, Stochastic Modelling, and System Simulation. He has organized five international conferences at NIT Jalandhar as Organizing Secretary and Convener.