Qingyu Yang

assistant professor of industrial and system engineering, was recently featured in the Industrial Engineer magazine for his research work in the paper "Optimal maintenance planning for repairable multi-component systems subject to dependent risks." The research developed reliability models and optimal maintenance policies for complex multi-component systems subject to dependent component failures. The developed methods have been applied in the manufacturing processes of a major U.S. auto corporation with improved reliability and optimal maintenance planning that has significantly reduced maintenance costs.

The paper will appear in the journal of Institute of Industrial Engineer Transaction, the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in the May 2015 issue. To learn more about Yang's research visit http://engineering.wayne.edu/profile/qingyu.yang/