IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter     Vol. 61, No. 4, November 2015

Table of Contents

Front page:

President's Message

From the Editor


Society Events and Announcements:

2016 QRS Conference, Vienna, Austria - Call for Papers

2016 PHM Conference, Ottowa, Canada - Call for Papers

Announcing 2016 System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), Kongsburg, Norway

RS Tutorial in Beijing, China

2015 PHM Conference, Austin - Revisited

RS Outreach in Nanjing, China

RS Outreach in Wuhan, China


Members & Chapters:

Boston Chapter Summary

Dallas Chapter


Letters in Reliability:

More Reliable Decision Making - Sam Keene


Links:

Reliability Society Home

RS Newsletter Homepage

Review of Events:  IEEE Reliability Society PHM Conference, Austin, TX

Joe Childs, PE
Conference Committee Member

Conference Chairman, Pradeep Lall, led the preparations and implementation of the Prognostics and Health Management Conference in Austin in late June of this year. The conference was held on the Campus of the University of Texas in Austin, TX.

The conference facilitated exchanges of ideas and practices, as well as a relaxed, social atmosphere that encouraged networking, forging new relationships, and deepening existing ones.

The first day of the conference provided tutorials that included PHM in machinery, vibration, gearboxes, bearings, gas turbines, power systems, and fighter aircraft.  Physics of failure, and Big Data were also presented in this session.  There were three tracks that covered a wide variety of PHM-related applications, methods, and theory.  We also were challenged and fascinated by outstanding keynotes from Mr. Steven Betza of Lockheed Martin who spoke about Collaborative Engineering and Mr. Chris Stecki, CEO of PHM Technology, Inc. (PHMT). Mr. Stecki's presentation was entitled “PHM in the Product Lifecycle—What's Next.”

As a break from the sessions, the group also attended a relaxing cruise/dinner on Austin’s Lake Travis with the sun setting on the Austin skyline as a backdrop.

PICTURES:
From tutorial, one session, poster paper, couple from keynotes and cruise

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University of MD, CALCE’s Dr. Michael Osterman presents his tutorial, “Physics of Failure Algorithms for Prognostics of Electronics” Mr. Herbert Hecht presenting the paper, “RUL Prognostics and Critical Zone Recognition”
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Dr. Pradeep Lall, introducing Keynote Speaker, Steven Betza Keynote Speaker, Steven Betza of Lockheed Martin
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Dr. Lall thanks Chris Stecki for his Keynote Presentation Dr. Pradeep Ramuhalli reviews a poster discussing PHM applications with presenter


...And a little excursion on the river:


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The Austin skyline from our river-boat cruise Mr. Hecht and his wife enjoy the view
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“Stay thirsty, my friends...” says our most-interesting engineer, Chandru Mirchandani Prof. Lall, the Conference Director, takes a minute, while on the cruise