Dwight, Richard

Research Areas

Research Overview

19 years in the steel industry initially as an investigation engineer progressing to engineering manager led to a career in academia where his firsthand knowledge of the problems facing industry informs his research and teaching activities.

Leading the major research programs in engineering asset management, recent projects include related projects for the CRC for Rail Innovation and also on behalf of the CRC for Energy Pipelines. Richard directs the engineering asset management and rolling stock engineering programs at the University of Wollongong within which he has taught widely. His publications includes over 30 papers related to asset management and rail research in addition to his work in other areas and he also teaches mechanical design.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Development and Validation of an Overall Equipment Efficiency Measurement Model for Supporting Operational Excellence Published In IFAC-PapersOnLine
2020	Approaches to Dealing with Missing Data in Railway Asset Management Published In IEEE Access
2020	Requirements for Big Data adoption for Railway asset Management Published In IEEE Access
2018	Contextualist-retroductive case study design for strategic asset management research Published In Production Planning and Control
2018	Development of supported rail vibration models Published In Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design
2016	Developing an optimum maintenance policy by life cycle cost analysis – a case study Published In International Journal of Production Research
2016	Exploring structure and role of engineering asset management system in production organizations Published In International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management
2016	Maintaining pipeline integrity through holistic asset management Published In European Journal of Industrial Engineering
2015	Calibrating Markov chain-based deterioration models for predicting future conditions of railway bridge elements Published In Journal of Bridge Engineering
2015	Managing Maintenance Resources for Better Asset Utilisation Published In Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
2015	Managing maintenance resources for better asset utilisation Published In Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
2015	On the study of vibration of a supported railway rail using the semi-analytical finite element method Published In Journal of Sound and Vibration
2015	The role of life cycle cost in engineering asset management Published In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
2013	A framework for the engineering asset management system Published In Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
2013	Choosing an optimal model for failure data analysis by graphical approach Published In Reliability Engineering and System Safety
2013	Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis Published In Reliability Engineering and System Safety
2013	The strategic role of engineering asset management Published In International Journal of Production Economics
2012	A retroductive case study design for engineering asset management Published In International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
2011	A fuzzy-based decision support model for engineering asset condition monitoring - A case study of examination of water pipelines Published In Expert Systems with Applications
2009	An age-based inspection and replacement policy for heterogeneous components Published In IEEE Transactions on Reliability
2009	Performance measurement: roles and challenges Published In Industrial Management + Data Systems
2007	Asset replacement for an urban railway using a modified two-cycle replacement model Published In Journal of the Operational Research Society
1999	Searching for real maintenance performance measures Published In Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
1992	Is prescience really required by modern occupational health and safety law. A case study Published In Mechanical Engineering Transactions - Institution of Engineers, Australia

Chapter

Year	Title
2022	Maintenance Requirements Analysis and Whole-Life Costing Published In International Series in Operations Research and Management Science Publisher Springer International Publishing
2021	Social Complexity and Systems Intelligence in Asset Management Systems Published In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering Publisher Springer International Publishing
2015	The mechanisms of curve squeal Published In Noise and Vibration for Rail Transportation Systems
2012	Field verification of curving noise mechanisms Published In Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design Publisher Springer Japan

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2021	RAM database for the railway industry - Status and development Published In 2021 Global Reliability and Prognostics and Health Management, PHM-Nanjing 2021
2018	Exploring Approaches for Teaching and Learning Engineering Asset Management Courses Published In Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018
2017	Modeling failure data by 3-parameter Weibull distribution models Published In Proceedings of 2016 11th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety: Integrating Big Data, Improving Reliability and Serving Personalization, ICRMS 2016
2015	A resources provision policy for multi-unit maintenance program Published In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS)
2015	Bridge deterioration modeling by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation method Published In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety
2015	Condition based maintenance operation of wind turbines Published In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS)
2014	A Tool to investigate the status of engineering asset management in organizations Published In AMPEAK Asset Management Conference
2014	Curve squeal: Causes, treatments and results Published In INTERNOISE 2014 - 43rd International Congress on Noise Control Engineering: Improving the World Through Noise Control
2014	Managing maintenance resources for efficient asset utilization Published In AMPEAK Asset Management Conference
2013	A resources provision policy for multi-unit maintenance program Published In 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management & 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety
2013	Asset management in the energy pipeline industry in Australia Published In World Trends in Maintenance Engineering (M-Tech 2013)
2013	On a weibull related distribution model with decreasing, increasing and upside-down bathtub-shaped failure rate Published In The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium RAMS 2013
2013	Reliability analysis and optimization of modular converter system of wind turbines in design Published In The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium RAMS 2013
2013	The role of life cycle cost in engineering asset management Published In 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management and Safety
2012	Dynamic maintenance requirements analysis in asset management Published In European Safety and Reliability Conference: Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management, ESREL 2011
2012	Optimization of proof-test interval of safety-related system for asset management Published In APARM 2012 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling
2011	An investigation of a method for track decay rate measurement using train pass-bys Published In Australian Acoustical SocietyConference 2011, Acoustics 2011: Breaking New Ground
2010	Research methodologies for engineering asset management Published In ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference
2009	The role of asset management in enterprise strategy success Published In 13th annual ICOMS, Asset Management Conference
2008	A hybrid age-based maintenance policy for heterogeneous items Published In 19th European Safety and Reliability conference
2007	How Academics can help industry and the other way around Published In 5th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability "Impacting on practice"
2004	In-service performance of micropore carbon at Newcastle BF 3 Published In AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings
1991	Making TQC work for you in design-out maintenance. A case study in involving the operatives Published In National Conference Publication - Institution of Engineers, Australia
1983	COMPUTER INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERFORMANCE OF A ROLLING MILL DRIVE. Published In National Conference Publication - Institution of Engineers, Australia

Investigator On

Year	Title
2010	Energy Pipelines CRC Awarded by: NSW Industry & Investment Funding Scheme: NSW Science Leveraging Fund

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Design of Asset Management Model by Big Data Analytics Technologies	Bajpai, Anshul
Doctor of Philosophy	Application of Big Data Analytics to Energy Pipeline Integrity Management	Hussain, Muhammad
Doctor of Philosophy	Failure Mechanism Analysis and Risk Assessment of Pressure Equipment for Hydrogen and Ammonia Production	Chaudhry, Muzaffar

Education And Training

B.E.
Ph.D.

Located In Facility

Building 8, Room 115

Research Areas

Research Overview

19 years in the steel industry initially as an investigation engineer progressing to engineering manager led to a career in academia where his firsthand knowledge of the problems facing industry informs his research and teaching activities.

Leading the major research programs in engineering asset management, recent projects include related projects for the CRC for Rail Innovation and also on behalf of the CRC for Energy Pipelines. Richard directs the engineering asset management and rolling stock engineering programs at the University of Wollongong within which he has taught widely. His publications includes over 30 papers related to asset management and rail research in addition to his work in other areas and he also teaches mechanical design.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Development and Validation of an Overall Equipment Efficiency Measurement Model for Supporting Operational Excellence Published In IFAC-PapersOnLine
2020	Approaches to Dealing with Missing Data in Railway Asset Management Published In IEEE Access
2020	Requirements for Big Data adoption for Railway asset Management Published In IEEE Access
2018	Contextualist-retroductive case study design for strategic asset management research Published In Production Planning and Control
2018	Development of supported rail vibration models Published In Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design
2016	Developing an optimum maintenance policy by life cycle cost analysis – a case study Published In International Journal of Production Research
2016	Exploring structure and role of engineering asset management system in production organizations Published In International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management
2016	Maintaining pipeline integrity through holistic asset management Published In European Journal of Industrial Engineering
2015	Calibrating Markov chain-based deterioration models for predicting future conditions of railway bridge elements Published In Journal of Bridge Engineering
2015	Managing Maintenance Resources for Better Asset Utilisation Published In Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
2015	Managing maintenance resources for better asset utilisation Published In Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
2015	On the study of vibration of a supported railway rail using the semi-analytical finite element method Published In Journal of Sound and Vibration
2015	The role of life cycle cost in engineering asset management Published In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
2013	A framework for the engineering asset management system Published In Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
2013	Choosing an optimal model for failure data analysis by graphical approach Published In Reliability Engineering and System Safety
2013	Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis Published In Reliability Engineering and System Safety
2013	The strategic role of engineering asset management Published In International Journal of Production Economics
2012	A retroductive case study design for engineering asset management Published In International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
2011	A fuzzy-based decision support model for engineering asset condition monitoring - A case study of examination of water pipelines Published In Expert Systems with Applications
2009	An age-based inspection and replacement policy for heterogeneous components Published In IEEE Transactions on Reliability
2009	Performance measurement: roles and challenges Published In Industrial Management + Data Systems
2007	Asset replacement for an urban railway using a modified two-cycle replacement model Published In Journal of the Operational Research Society
1999	Searching for real maintenance performance measures Published In Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
1992	Is prescience really required by modern occupational health and safety law. A case study Published In Mechanical Engineering Transactions - Institution of Engineers, Australia

Chapter

Year	Title
2022	Maintenance Requirements Analysis and Whole-Life Costing Published In International Series in Operations Research and Management Science Publisher Springer International Publishing
2021	Social Complexity and Systems Intelligence in Asset Management Systems Published In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering Publisher Springer International Publishing
2015	The mechanisms of curve squeal Published In Noise and Vibration for Rail Transportation Systems
2012	Field verification of curving noise mechanisms Published In Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design Publisher Springer Japan

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2021	RAM database for the railway industry - Status and development Published In 2021 Global Reliability and Prognostics and Health Management, PHM-Nanjing 2021
2018	Exploring Approaches for Teaching and Learning Engineering Asset Management Courses Published In Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018
2017	Modeling failure data by 3-parameter Weibull distribution models Published In Proceedings of 2016 11th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety: Integrating Big Data, Improving Reliability and Serving Personalization, ICRMS 2016
2015	A resources provision policy for multi-unit maintenance program Published In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS)
2015	Bridge deterioration modeling by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation method Published In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety
2015	Condition based maintenance operation of wind turbines Published In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS)
2014	A Tool to investigate the status of engineering asset management in organizations Published In AMPEAK Asset Management Conference
2014	Curve squeal: Causes, treatments and results Published In INTERNOISE 2014 - 43rd International Congress on Noise Control Engineering: Improving the World Through Noise Control
2014	Managing maintenance resources for efficient asset utilization Published In AMPEAK Asset Management Conference
2013	A resources provision policy for multi-unit maintenance program Published In 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management & 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety
2013	Asset management in the energy pipeline industry in Australia Published In World Trends in Maintenance Engineering (M-Tech 2013)
2013	On a weibull related distribution model with decreasing, increasing and upside-down bathtub-shaped failure rate Published In The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium RAMS 2013
2013	Reliability analysis and optimization of modular converter system of wind turbines in design Published In The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium RAMS 2013
2013	The role of life cycle cost in engineering asset management Published In 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management and Safety
2012	Dynamic maintenance requirements analysis in asset management Published In European Safety and Reliability Conference: Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management, ESREL 2011
2012	Optimization of proof-test interval of safety-related system for asset management Published In APARM 2012 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling
2011	An investigation of a method for track decay rate measurement using train pass-bys Published In Australian Acoustical SocietyConference 2011, Acoustics 2011: Breaking New Ground
2010	Research methodologies for engineering asset management Published In ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference
2009	The role of asset management in enterprise strategy success Published In 13th annual ICOMS, Asset Management Conference
2008	A hybrid age-based maintenance policy for heterogeneous items Published In 19th European Safety and Reliability conference
2007	How Academics can help industry and the other way around Published In 5th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability "Impacting on practice"
2004	In-service performance of micropore carbon at Newcastle BF 3 Published In AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings
1991	Making TQC work for you in design-out maintenance. A case study in involving the operatives Published In National Conference Publication - Institution of Engineers, Australia
1983	COMPUTER INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERFORMANCE OF A ROLLING MILL DRIVE. Published In National Conference Publication - Institution of Engineers, Australia

Investigator On

Year	Title
2010	Energy Pipelines CRC Awarded by: NSW Industry & Investment Funding Scheme: NSW Science Leveraging Fund

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Design of Asset Management Model by Big Data Analytics Technologies	Bajpai, Anshul
Doctor of Philosophy	Application of Big Data Analytics to Energy Pipeline Integrity Management	Hussain, Muhammad
Doctor of Philosophy	Failure Mechanism Analysis and Risk Assessment of Pressure Equipment for Hydrogen and Ammonia Production	Chaudhry, Muzaffar

Education And Training

B.E.
Ph.D.

Located In Facility

Building 8, Room 115

Dwight, Richard Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Funding

Investigator On

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Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

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Education And Training

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Located In Facility

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Contact

Located In Facility

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