ESReDA Newsletter – December 2020

Dear ESReDA Members,

ESReDA went through a hard Year 2020. The hardest was to be obliged to move, cancel, or postpone, at the last minutes, events that had been decided long time ago. The negative impact was not financial. It was rather the loss of networking opportunities. ESReDA semi-annual seminar is one of the principal networking means ESReDA has. Hopefully, ESReDA has another major means that is ESReDA’s Project Groups (PGs). Read More “ESReDA Newsletter – December 2020”

57th ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online

The 57th ESReDA seminar was held on 23rd‐24th October 2019, hosted by the Technical University of Valencia and supported by the research and educational center C-Motores Termicos. There were eight paper presentations and three keynote speeches by Prof. Olga Fink (ETH Zurich), Prof. Sebastián Martorell (U. Poliètcnica de València) and Prof. Marco Riani (U. de Parma). Also, in a round table, it was discussed by Henk Wells and Mohammad Raza the problems dealing with the application of digital concepts to Risk Based Inspections. Read More “57th ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online”

TIPW2020, September 23-25, 2020, Guimarães, Portugal

The International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW2020) will take place on September 23-25, 2020 at University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.

The workshop aims at providing an international forum for the debate on, among others, issues such as the resilience, robustness and redundancy of infrastructure systems, risk assessment and management, climate change and loading uncertainties, novel decision-making frameworks, and many other topics. Read More “TIPW2020, September 23-25, 2020, Guimarães, Portugal”

Short Technical Note on Covid-19 Propagation by M. Eid

During the 1st phase of all major crises, responses are needed despite the lack of realistic data that can’t be issued but from the field. Decision makers can’t wait the arrival of real field collected data. However, they need rational support to make decisions. Rational support should be systematic and perform close—to-real simulations.

Considering the COVID-19 global crisis and specifically the French case, decision makers are presently, (March 2020), focusing on two sets of populations: the set of infected individuals and the set of deceased individuals. Read More “Short Technical Note on Covid-19 Propagation by M. Eid”

56th ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online

The 56th ESReDA seminar was held on 23‐24 May 2019, hosted by Johannes Kepler University (Institute for Stochastics and Linz Center of Mechatronics) Linz, Austria.

Vital services continuity is a major societal security issue in modern society. The supply of the vital services is guaranteed thanks to a large variety of Critical Infrastructures (CIs). Some CIs’ disruptions may endanger the security of the citizen, the safety of the strategic assets and even the governance stability. Read More “56th ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online”

55th ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online

The 55th ESReDA Seminar took place in Bucharest, Romania, 9-10 October 2018, hosted by the Romanian Railway Investigating Agency (AGIFER).

This seminar was opened by Mr. Luís Andrade Ferreira, ESReDA president and Vasile Belibou, the AGIFER General Manager. For the first time for ESReDA, the State Secretary in the Ministry of Transports, Mr. Călin Cristian Forț, introduced on Romanian Railways evolutions. Read More “55th ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online”

57th ESReDA Seminar on Advances in Reliability, Risk and Safety Analysis with Big Data (23-24 October 2019, Valencia, Spain)

The 57th ESReDA seminar was held on 23rd‐24th October 2019, hosted by the Technical University of Valencia and supported by the research and educational center C-Motores Termicos. There were eight paper presentations and three keynote speeches by Prof. Olga Fink (ETH Zurich), Prof. Sebastián Martorell (U. Poliètcnica de València) and Prof. Marco Riani (U. de Parma). Also, in a round table, it was discussed by Henk Wells and Mohammad Raza the problems dealing with the application of digital concepts to Risk Based Inspections. Read More “57th ESReDA Seminar on Advances in Reliability, Risk and Safety Analysis with Big Data (23-24 October 2019, Valencia, Spain)”

11th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability MIMAR (14-16 July 2020, Nottingham, UK)

14-16 July 2020, Nottingham, UK

The 11th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability (MIMAR) will take place in Nottingham, UK from 14 – 16 July 2020. This event is the premier maintenance and reliability modelling conference in the UK and builds upon a very successful series of previous conferences. It is an excellent international forum for disseminating information on the state-of-the-art research, theories and practices in maintenance and reliability modelling and offers a platform for connecting researchers and practitioners from around the world.

The submission deadlines for abstracts and the optional full paper for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings are listed below. All submissions are subject to rigorous review before an acceptance decision is made. Read More “11th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability MIMAR (14-16 July 2020, Nottingham, UK)”

New book publication: Failures and Forced Unavailability of Power Plants by Henk C. Wels

Power plants are not functioning to the fullest 100 % of the time. Maintenance and inspection of some components require them to be off-line in time, however, this can be planned such that customers continue receiving power from the electrical grid, steam or district heating from other plants. Unplanned outages due to failures or external conditions may cause surprises and can lead to situations in which the demand is not satisfied at short term at large costs.

In this book unavailability is modelled both qualitatively and quantitatively, in order to optimize power plants efficiency.

The book is derived from earlier papers presented at ESReDA, PGMON, VGB working groups and other committees while the author was working with KEMA and its legacy companies and departments NRG, DNV GL and DEKRA.

Available at VGB website.

53rd ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online

On the 14-15 November 2017, ESReDA (European Safety, Reliability & Data Association) in collaboration with the European Commission Joint Research Centre organized the 53rd ESReDA Seminar entitled Enhancing Safety: the Challenge of Foresight in Ispra, Italy.

The seminar offered a technical programme with four keynote speeches from:

‒     Fabiana Scapolo, European Commision Joint Reserach Centre, Belgium;

‒     Ana Afonso, European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy;

‒     Antonio d’Agostino, European Union Agency for Railways, Valenciennes, France;

‒     Lorenzo Fiamma, European Maritime Safety Agency, Lisbon, Portugal. Read More “53rd ESReDA Seminar Proceedings are available online”

53rd ESReDA Seminar on Enhancing Safety: the Challenge of Foresight (14-15 November 2017, Ispra, Italy)

On the 14-15 November 2017, ESReDA (European Safety, Reliability & Data Association) in collaboration with the European Commission Joint Research Centre organized the 53rd ESReDA Seminar entitled Enhancing Safety: the Challenge of Foresight in Ispra, Italy. Read More “53rd ESReDA Seminar on Enhancing Safety: the Challenge of Foresight (14-15 November 2017, Ispra, Italy)”

52nd ESReDA Seminar on Critical Infrastructures (May 30-31, Kaunas, Lithuania)

On the 30th – 31st May 2017, ESReDA (European Safety, Reliability & Data Association) in collaboration with Lithuanian Energy Institute and Vytautas Magnus University (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) organized the 52nd ESReDA Seminar on Critical Infrastructures: Enhancing Preparedness & Resilience for the security of citizens and services supply continuity (Kaunas, Lithuania). Read More “52nd ESReDA Seminar on Critical Infrastructures (May 30-31, Kaunas, Lithuania)”

Conference “Maintenance in Power Plants 2018” with Technical Exhibition

28 February 2018 – 1 March 2018 in Bonn (Germany) by VGB PowerTech

This biennial event is addressed to all experts of the conventional and nuclear division, to the experts of maintenance in power plants and service companies and to the independent inspectors and deputies of governments, who are concerned with new developments in the divisions maintenance, inspection and repair. This conference is to put up the current subjects in discussion and to cultivate the intensive exchange of experiences especially for the experts of maintenance in power plants. Read More “Conference “Maintenance in Power Plants 2018” with Technical Exhibition”

Risk management, safety and dependability: looking back from 1990 to 2015, which future? (by André Lannoy)

After recalling the major industrial challenges, the article discusses the evolution of approaches and methods of risk management, dependability and safety from 1990 to 2015. Three periods can be distinguished. The first is oriented maintenance purposes. The second, given the scarcity of financial resources, is concerned with ageing management and life cycle management. Read More “Risk management, safety and dependability: looking back from 1990 to 2015, which future? (by André Lannoy)”

The 11th Summer Safety & Reliability Seminars (SSARS 2017)

25th June – 1st July 2017, Gdańsk/Sopot, Poland

SSARS 2017 website: http://ssars.am.gdynia.pl

The annual one-week Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars are organised to advance the methods for the safety and reliability analysis of complex systems and processes and to disseminate the newest achievements in the field. The subjects of the Seminars, different from year to year, are chosen by the Seminars Boards in an effort to dynamically represent the methodological advancements developed to meet the newly arising challenges in the field of safety and reliability. Read More “The 11th Summer Safety & Reliability Seminars (SSARS 2017)”

51st ESReDA Seminar held in Clermont-Ferrand, France

The 51st ESReDA Seminar on Maintenance and Life Cycle Assessment of Structures and Industrial Systems was held on the 20th-21st October, 2016. It was the last seminar of ESReDA project group ROLCCOST “Reliability-based Life Cycle Cost Optimization of Structures and Infrastructures”. It was held in the Pascal Institute, Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France). There were 21 presentations of high scientific level and fruitful discussions among the experts in the field, along with technical visits in the Technical facilities at Sigma-Clermont and Civil Engineering experimental facilities at Polytech Clermont-Ferrand. The seminar has been attended by 35 experts and scientists coming from 7 European countries and 1 country out of Europe. Read More “51st ESReDA Seminar held in Clermont-Ferrand, France”

The Tenth International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security

CRITIS 2015: to monitor the innovative research and new challenges in the field of critical (information) infrastructures protection (C(I)IP). CRITIS 2015 aims at bringing together researchers and professionals from academia, industry and governmental organisations working in the field of the security of critical (information) infrastructure systems. Read More “The Tenth International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security”

SARS and ESREL joint-conference 2016

In 2016, the Safety and Reliability Society will co-organise the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2016 jointly with Strathclyde University and ESRA. The conference will be held on 25-29 September 2016 in the Conference Centre of the new Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) in the heart of Glasgow.

The Programme Committee will be led by Lesley Walls (Strathclyde), while the meeting will have three co-chairs – Terje Aven (ESRA), Richard Denning (SaRS) and Tim Bedford (Strathclyde).

For more information, see http://www.sars.org.uk/news/esrel-2016-uk/ Read More “SARS and ESREL joint-conference 2016”

Why Engineering Asset Management is important?

The definition of Asset Management stated in by PAS 55:2008 is: Systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an organization optimally and sustainably manages its assets and asset systems, their associated performance, risks and expenditures over their life cycles for the purpose of achieving  its organizational strategic plan.

It is an integrated approach, which aims to include a holistic, systematic, systemic, risk-based and optimized analysis of the physical assets. But what does it actually means for organizations? Read More “Why Engineering Asset Management is important?”

Henri Procaccia – Elder Statesman of ESReDA

As a permanent and most senior member of the ESReDA Bureau of Directors (BoD), Henri Procaccia is viewed as something of a sage by association members. Given that Henri’s experience in reliability and risk assessment stretches over four decades, along with his personal involvement with EUReDATA since its inception in 1973, it’s not surprising that he has achieved elder statesman status. Read More “Henri Procaccia – Elder Statesman of ESReDA”

Raising standards: ESReDA experts at work

International standards play a vital role in improving the quality of the products and services we use every day – from the safety of our railways, to the reliability of machinery and even the compatibility of our banking systems. But how do these standards come about? The answer lies in the collaborative work of experts across Europe. Together, they are striving to create practical tools to tackle global challenges including health, safety, security and climate change. Read More “Raising standards: ESReDA experts at work”