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1999 ATP Fall National Meeting
Condition-Based Maintenance Workshop
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Chair:  Richard W. (Chuck) Bartholomew
E-mail: richard.bartholomew@nist.gov
Voice: 301 975-4786
Fax: 301 548-1087

Co-Chair:  Richard (Dick) Palmer
E-mail: richard.palmer@nist.gov
Voice: 301 975-2160
Fax: 301 548-1087

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 1999 ATP National Meeting


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Track 5: MATERIALS and MANUFACTURING

Engineered Surfaces
Large-Scale Intelligent Composite Systems
Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)
Submicron Micromachining
 Innovative Forming Techniques
Advanced Construction Materials and Processes

The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be holding its 1999 National Meeting on November 15-17 in San Jose, California. The overall theme of the meeting will be "Accelerating Tomorrow's Technologies." As part of this meeting, ATP will host a workshop for Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM). The workshop will run Monday November 15 from 9:30 to 5:00 and resume Tuesday, November 16 from 8:30 to 11:30.
Workshop Objective: We are looking for ways of identifying and justifying critical needs of the CBM industry with an emphasis on the question of "Why Now?" for certain technologies and applications. Of particular interest will be the perspectives of:

  • those encountering barriers to developing technologies that enable practical solutions, or
  • those having problems introducing technologies into an industrial environment for particular industry sector(s).

This workshop will thus build on the results of last year's ATP CBM workshop in Atlanta, Ga. to look for ways to accelerate technology development and acceptance.
Workshop Format: The workshop will consist of a series of panel discussions focusing on specific technical capabilities and needs that have been identified by industry and the research community.
Panel Discussion Members: Panel members will be chosen from the authors of submitted short papers (6 pages max) addressing one of the four capabilities or needs listed below. (Authors may submit to more than one area, but each paper should focus on one individual area.) While all submitted papers will be bound and available at the workshop, if a panel is oversubscribed, only a subset of authors will present. However, everyone will be invited to discuss the issues. Over subscription will depend on the total number of papers for all three panels and available workshop time. Papers in final format (preferably Microsoft Word) are due Friday October 15, 1999 for inclusion in the bound proceedings to be handed out at the workshop. Please e-mail papers in final form to richard.bartholomew@nist.gov. Additional information can be found at our web site.
Content of Short Papers: In discussions with the CBM community, specific technical capabilities have been identified as requiring special support and consideration by industry and the research community. Three of these capabilities were identified at last November's CBM workshop at ATP's Fall meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The fourth was defined through continuing discussions with the CBM R&D community.

  1. The ability to predict, and to continuously refine the prediction of, remaining useful life of equipment;
  2. New sensor technologies that are smaller, less expensive, have greater operating lifetimes and are able to be built into equipment for continuous monitoring;
  3. Expert reasoning systems for maintenance-related knowledge and advice; and
  4. Requirements for, and benefits of, connectivity and inter-operability standards across an enterprise.

Papers discussing these 4 technical areas in the context of a) the National Meeting's theme of Accelerating Tomorrow's Technologies, and b) the CBM workshop's focus on the question of "Why now?" will be grouped in three ½ day panel discussions that will provide an opportunity for:

  • End users and those who implement CBM technologies to identify and discuss with suppliers, developers and researchers needs that include, but are not limited to:
    • demonstrating a business-case for the economic impact of CBM technology on a company's and/or industry's profitability;
    • clarifying the underdeveloped aspects of today's CBM technology that need resolution before management will accept and implement CBM technologies;
    • identifying some preferred business models for delivery of future CBM products and services;
    • detailing intellectual property issues with regard to company-owned data used for CBM technology development;
    • listing special considerations and constraints in terms of specific applications or critical equipment and components.
  • Researchers, and developers of CBM technologies to identify and discuss with end users and suppliers issues that include, but are not limited to:
    • identifying new capabilities;
    • discussing technical challenges of developing a particular technology;
    • identifying where scientific uncertainty, novel integration or path-changing ideas lie;
    • working towards a consensus of what should be done to establish technical feasibility;
    • methods for measuring the significance of technological breakthroughs through the use of tools such as historical trend analyzes of performance metrics or other measures;
    • why CBM technologies as poised to make significant contributions now.
  • Suppliers of CBM technologies to discuss with the end user and the researcher and developer issues that include, but are not limited to:
    • identifying common technical issues of a particular industrial sector;
    • identifying common technical issues that cut across multiple industry sectors;
    • identifying common implementation issues;
    • identifying what's needed to overcome implementation barriers;
    • using data to support the ranking of opportunities for significant economic growth within or across industrial sector(s);
    • why there are opportunities for benefits now.
Who Should Attend: We are looking to the R&D managers, researchers, innovators, maintenance managers, system integrators, component suppliers, etc of CBM technologies who can bring their experiences and knowledge to a public forum that will lead to the formation of strategic alliances and new approached to developing and implementing CBM systems.
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