This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 4th May 2013. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM. We do have a lift, so no excuse. I have bad knees, and still manage to crawl up 2 flights.
This session introduces the audience to the history of reliability engineering, its application during the early days, and how it is applied today. It also covers some of the tools used by reliability engineers to study the life characteristics of equipment or systems. These include RAM(reliability availability maintainability) modeling, life data analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and Markov chain analysis.
Examples of applications in the oil and gas industry is also discussed.
The above will be presented by A. Rizal Mohamed. He is the reliability adviser to a Fortune 500 energy company, based in Kuala Lumpur. His responsibilities include providing advice to client organizations to improve equipment, system, and plant reliability and availability; developing reliability training modules and delivering the contents; coaching and assessing the capabilities of reliability engineers; performing root‐cause analysis to understand why systems and equipment fail; and assessing the conditions of physical assets in process plants owned by the clients.
You can register for the event here, and retrieve the flier here.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
I need a reliability adviser to tell me whether my maid is reliable enough to turn up more than 4 days a week.