Professor D.N.P. Murthy, The University of Queensland, Australia
Date
29-06-2006
Time
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Venue
Faculty of Engineering, Seminar Room EA-06-02, NUS
Abstract
Product reliability is determined by decisions made during the design and production stages and impacts on the marketing and post-sale support stages of the product life cycle. This implies that reliability design needs to be done from a product life cycle perspective taking into account the technical and commercial implications of product reliability. The seminar will discuss this and report on two joint research projects (involving researchers from Norway and from Finland) that the speaker is currently involved with.
Biography
Pra Murthy obtained B.E. and M.E. degrees from Jabalpur University and the Indian Institute of Science in India and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is currently Research Professor in the Division of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Queensland and Senior Scientific Advisor to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has held visiting appointments at several universities in the USA, Europe and Asia. His current research interests include various aspects of new product development, operations management (lot sizing, quality, reliability, maintenance), and post-sale support (warranties, service contracts). He has authored or coauthored 20 book chapters, over 150 journal papers and 140 conference papers. He is on the editorial boards of eight international journals and has run short courses for industry on various topics in technology management, operations management and post-sale support in Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA.
