World-class research by Gladstone researcher Gopinath Chattopadhyay* is also a boon for the port city, which relies more than most on well-maintained industries.

A research paper, co-authored by Dr Chattopadhyay in conjunction with researchers in Sweden, has provided operating managers at all levels of organisations with a framework that can be used in making maintenance decisions.

Gladstone researcher Gopinath Chattopadhyay

This development of a method for organisations to measure the performance of their maintenance management operations has prompted international journal publisher Emerald Group to present an 'Outstanding Paper Award'.

Dr Chattopadhyay also continues his research in the area of rail wheel maintenance and asset management as Associate Professor in Industrial Asset Management under the Centre for Railway Engineering (CRE) and the Process Engineering and Light Metals (PELM) Centre and as Director of Engineering Postgraduate Studies.

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* Associate Professor Gopinath Chattopadhyay received the B.Eng. (Mechanical Eng.) in 1979, M. Eng. (Industrial Eng. and Production Eng.) in 1984, MBA (Operations management) in 1986 from Calcutta University, India, with Gold medals in B. Eng. and M. Eng.  and Silver Medal in MBA. He received the PhD degree in operations management from Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 1999. He has extensive experience in industries as engineer and manager in Metal Box, Industrial finance Corporation and Indo Burma Petroleum and Balmer Lawrie. He has extensive teaching and research experience in universities such as University of Calcutta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in India, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and CQUniversity in Australia, University of Indonesia in Jakarta, Shanghai JT University in China, Crossfields Asiapacific in Singapore, Lulea University of Technology in Sweden, and Saarland University in Germany.

Dr Chattopadhyay is Director of Engineering Postgraduate Studies and Associate Professor in Industrial Asset Management at CQUniversity Gladstone. His research interests are stochastic modelling in the area of product failure and degradation, reliability, and maintenance cost analysis, life-cycle costing, risk analysis, warranty cost modelling, asset management in rails and cost-benefit analysis for maintenance decisions. 

Dr Chattopadhyay has more than 100 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a member of the editorial boards and reviewer for many international journals. He was President of the Australian Society of Operations Research (Qld. Branch) and Vice President and Executive Committee Member of Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia. He coordinates the Maintenance Management Program and is active in research projects in the area of reliability, maintenance and asset management under the Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management, CRC for Rail Innovations, Process Engineering and Light Metal (PELM) and Centre for Railway Engineering (CRE).