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Foreword.

Publication: IIE Transactions
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Foreword.(reliability engineering)

Article Excerpt
The Editors of the IIE Transactions and its editorial board oftentimes initiate Special Issues on emerging research areas, or topics in a well-established area. In other cases, the Special Issue is dedicated to honor a founder and a leading researcher who has had a sustained influence on the industrial engineering discipline. This Special Issue is in the latter category.

The first IIE Transactions issue honoring such a leader was dedicated to A. Alan B. Pritsker, one of the founders of the field of simulation. This is the second such Special Issue and is dedicated to honor Richard E., Barlow, one of the leaders of modern reliability theory for the past four decades.

Without a doubt, most of the key researchers in the field of...

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