The 38th ESReDA Seminar and 3rd joint ESReDA/ESRA seminar on Advanced Maintenance Modelling will take place on 4-5th May, 2010, hosted by the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Pecs, Hungary (http://www.pte.hu/pab/).

Seminar theme

The failure of many systems results in inconvenience and possible loss of revenue from its associated unavailability.  When the system is safety critical the consequence of failure can be catastrophic with loss of life.  Maintenance is the activity undertaken to control the state of the asset and aims where possible to prevent failures or reduce the consequential downtime should they occur.  Maintenance activities can be either proactive or reactive and include:  preventive maintenance (reducing the probability of failure) by servicing and modification of the system or its components; and corrective maintenance (rectifying failures) by component repair or replacement.

Maintenance planning will determine how the resources of personnel, spares and specialist equipment will be utilized to control the state of the system and its components.  The maintenance management scheme establishes how the components and subsystems will be maintained, balancing the effort distributed between preventive and corrective activities within the limitations imposed on the resources.

The selection of the maintenance action and when it is performed can control the degradation processes associated with a system in order to deliver an acceptable or even optimal level of performance.

An effective and efficient maintenance scheme often plays a vital role in a system reaching to required levels of performance, particularly as the asset ages.  Modelling is the process by which such a maintenance scheme can be established.  This seminar looks at the current state-of-the-art in maintenance modelling and the developments that have taken place which are required to evaluate changing face of maintenance practices.

Topics (include , but are not limited to) :
- Modelling the influence of maintenance on the reliability and availability performance of systems.
- Modelling the degradation of systems and components to identify appropriate maintenance actions.
- System health monitoring.
- Fault detection and failure identification methods.
- Component prognostics (determining when to replace/ repair components by monitoring their condition)
- Systems prognostics (predicting the system reliability when component failure or deterioration conditions are known).
- Planning of inspection and testing schedules (eg risk based, reliability based).
- Optimal maintenance schemes.
- Industrial case studies

Seminar Organisation
The seminar is jointly organised by ESReDA and ESRA

Chairman: Henrik Kortner, (ESReDA President/DNV, Norway)

Technical program committee
John Andrews (University of Nottingham, UK) 
Aitor Arnaiz (Tekniker, Spain)
Piero Baraldi (Politechnico Di Milano, Italy)
Lisa Bartlett (Loughborough University, UK)
Christophe Berenguer (University de Technologie de Troyes, France)
Mohamed Eid (CEA, France)
Mitra Fouladirad (University de Technologie de Troyes, France)
Adel Ghobbar (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Rafael Gouriveau (Femto-st, France)
Benoit Iung (Nancy University, France)
André Lannoy (IMdR, France)
Eric Leveret (Nancy University, France)
Darren Prescott (Loughborough University, UK)
Sipke van Manen (Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands)
Cyp van Rijn (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands)
Enrico Zio (Politechnico Di Milano, Italy)

Organising committee
Mohamed Eid (CEA, France)
John Andrews (University of Nottingham, UK)

Relevent Dates

Board of Directors      :           May 3^rd, 2010, 14:00-16:30

Date of Seminar          :           May 4^th – 5^th , 2010

General Assembly       :           4^th May 2010 (18:00-19:00)

Gala Dinner                 :           4^th May 2010 (20:00)

Visit of Paks NPP*     :           6^th May 2010

*NPP: Nuclear Power Plant

Seminar Place:
The seminar will be held in one of the prestigious Palace of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science. To have more details about the venue, please, visit the site: http://www.pte.hu/pab/ .

The exact address is:

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia

Pecsi Teruleti Bizottsaga

H-7624 Pecs, Jurisics M. u.44

Hotels

The seminar local organiser proposes the following 2 hotels. Reservations should be done directly with the hotels. On reservation, please, remember to mention the event “the 38th ESReDA Seminar”.
The seminar is held in the same period as some local culture festivities. We advise to book your rooms as early as possible.

HOTEL MILLENNIUM
Kálvária u. 58.
H-7625 Pécs
Phone: +36 (72) 512-220, +36 (72) 512-222
Fax: +36 (72) 512-223

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http://www.hotelmillennium.hu/

CENTRAL HOTEL
Hotel Central
Bajcsy Zsilinszky Street 7.
7621 Pécs

Phone: 72/525-602
Fax: 72/525-603
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http://www.centralpanzio.hu/