Andrew K. S. Jardine
Andrew K. S. Jardine, PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MIET, PEng is Professor and Director of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Jardine is the author of the economic life software AGE/CON and PERDEC licensed to organizations in transportation, mining, electrical utilities, and process industries, and is author of the OREST software used for optimizing component preventive replacement decisions and forecasting demand for spare parts. In addition to writing software, Dr. Jardine is a prolific researcher and proselytizer of advances in maintenance decision-making, and his views are regularly advocated through industrial consultation, published papers, professional seminars and conferences.
Professor Jardine's book, Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability, first published in 1973, is now in its 6th printing. He is coeditor with J. D. Campbell of the 2001 book Maintenance Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life Cycle Decisions. His new book Maintenance, Replacement & Reliability: Theory and Applications, co-authored with Dr. A. H. C. Tsang, was published by CRC Press in 2006.
Professor Jardine was the 1993 Eminent Speaker to the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia and in 1998 was the first recipient of the Sergio Guy Memorial Award from the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the maintenance profession. At the 2008 conference of the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies in Brussels, Professor Andrew Jardine received the Award for The Best Paper presented in the category Academic Developments, sponsored by the Salvetti Foundation. He is listed in the Canadian Who’s Who.