IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter     Vol. 60, No. 2., May 2014

Table of Contents

Front page:

President's Message

From the Editor

Society News:

In Memoriam: Harold E. Ascher (1935-2014)

Candidates Sought for Reliability Society Admin Committee (2015-2017)

 

Members & Chapters

Chapter Outreach Xi'an, China

Chapter Outreach Taiwan

Chapter Outreach UK/Ireland Chapter

Announcement: Reliability Outreach, Milan, Italy

Dallas Chapter

Boston-NH-Providence Chapter

 

Meetings & Conferences

2014 IEEE PHM Conference in Spokane

RAMS 2015, Palm Harbor, FL

Letters in Reliability

Thoughts on the Power of Questioning

Microsecond PHM


Links:

Reliability Society Home

RS Newsletter Homepage

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Reliability Outreach Seminar & Workshop
 October 2014, Milano, Italy

Forthcoming October 2014, a Reliability Outreach Seminar &Workshop will take place at Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy). The event is promoted by IEEE Reliablity Society, IEEE Italy Reliability Chapter, Politecnico di Milano and Aramis Srl.

This 2-day event covers Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) implementation, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulation for the reliability and availability analysis of complex systems. PHM offers the possibility to shift to condition-based and predictive maintenance policies; RCM provides the basis for maintenance strategies solidly founded on the deep comprehension of the link between scheduled maintenance and the reliability properties of the components; MC simulation is described as a powerful tool for the reliability and availability analysis of complex systems, due to its inherent capability of achieving a closer adherence to reality in the representation of the system stochastic behavior.
The seminar and workshop is intended for researchers and professionals with an interest in Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) in various applications (transportation by air, land and sea, manufacturing, power production, …). Engineers, maintenance professionals, plant/facility managers and operators will benefit from it by using the competence gained for achieving performance improvements through better RAM analysis and maintenance practice.

On the first day a seminar session is organized devoted to the illustration of PHM approaches for on-condition and predictive maintenance, RCM framework for understanding the relationship between scheduled maintenance and reliability for improved system performance and MC simulation for system reliability and availability analysis. The programme is enriched by talks given by Prof. Michael Pecht, University of Maryland (USA), Dr. Pierre Dersin, Alstom (France), and Prof. Enrico Zio, Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Aramis Srl (Italy), ECP&Supelec (France).
On the second day, specific topics selected from Day 1 Seminars will be discussed and debated. Moreover, Practical sessions will be held on specific topics such as Maintenance practice, Monitoring the conditions of industrial equipments in practice, Monte Carlo applications to reliability and availability, Model-based and data-driven techniques for PHM.

Francesco Di Maio, Politecnico di Milano, Chair of the IEEE Reliability Society Italy Chapter
Enrico Zio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Aramis Srl, Italy, Chair of SSEC, ECP&Supelec, France

For further information, please contact:

Marsha Abramo                                      m.t.abramo@ieee.org
Francesco Di Maio                                  francesco.dimaio@polimi.it
Enrico Zio                                                 enrico.zio@ecp.fr