Vasiliy V. Krivtsov

Sr. Staff Technical Specialist
The Ford Motor Company

Vasiliy Krivtsov is a practitioner and a consultant in Reliability Engineering, Risk Analysis and Applied Statistics employed by Ford Motor Company as a Staff Technical Specialist. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kharkov Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine and a Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland, USA. Vasiliy is the author and co-author of over 50 professional publications, including 2 books on Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis, 9 patented inventions and 6 trade secret inventions on statistical algorithms of Ford. He sits on the editorial board of Elsveir's international journal on Reliability Engineering and System Safety and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Prior to Ford, Krivtsov held the position of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in Ukraine, and that of Graduate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Reliability Engineering. Further information on Dr. Krivtsov's professional activity is available at www.krivtsov.net

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Service Model Innovation

Sunday, September 4th, 2016

17:35 Optimization of Preventive Maintenance Schedules in Field Service Operations

Complex technical systems, over their design life, are subject to preventive maintenance. Viewed as a field service activity, preventive maintenance is necessary to meet a system's reliability and availability requirements. The question is what should be the optimal schedule of such preventive maintenance actions? This presentation reviews statistical models that are used for preventive maintenance optimization. The discussion is illustrated by case studies from Vasiliy’s corporate and consulting experience.