The IEEE PHM-2010 Conference was successfully held on 12-14 January 2010 at University of Macau. It is the first of its kind in Asia-Pacific to promote PHM as a key enabler for growth for a broad range of industries in the Asia Pacific region. This PHM conference has attracted more then 140 delegates and experts worldwide in diverse application areas such as avionics and aerospace, marine systems, power and electronic systems, process industries, computers and telecommunications, material systems, industrial automation, healthcare and medical technology as well as in general theory. Many well known companies and institutions participated the conference such as IBM, China Aero-Polytechnology Establishment (CAPE), Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), Toshiba Corporation, Tsinghua University, EADS France Innovation Works, Beihang University, Cranfield University, Yokohama University and others.

The conference started with three tutorials on day 1 organized by the PHM centre of City University of Hong Kong, which marked a very good start of the conference. The opening session was addressed by Professor Wei Zhao, Rector of the University of Macau, Professor Way Kuo, President of City University of Hong Kong and Professor Rui Martins, Vice Rector of University of Macau. It followed by several key-note speeches from the leading experts in PHM. The opening session has provided the audience with different aspects and broad prospective of PHM. The experts discussed PHM technology and application, convergence of PHM, quality and philosophy, legal aspects with high profile case illustration.

The conference had 12 presentation sessions that covered the latest researches in PHM including Computation Modeling and Numerical Analysis – Diagnostics, Prognostics, Decision Making and Model Development; Computer Health Monitoring and Failure Analysis; Interconnect and Package Reliability Assessment; Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis and Prediction; PHM for Aerospace; Standard and Framework; Structural Health Monitoring; Advanced Sensor and Detection Technologies; Quality Control and Health Management; Product Development and Field Deployment; Damage Assessment; Healthcare and Medical Technologies. There were over 100 presentations and most papers are application oriented or actions based from real world problems. The topics ranged from the fundamental theory of prognostics to the very near application prototype development. It covers not only electronics industry, but as far as medical care which is seen as a promising area of PHM application for human beings. The text discusses reliability growth, accelerated testing, and management of a continuous improvement program; analyzes the influence of reliability on logistics support requirements; shows how to assess overall product effectiveness; and introduces the concepts of process capability and statistical process control techniques.

The PHM-2010 Macau has created an international, not limited to China, platform for networking, exchanging ideas and future collaborations. Participants thoroughly enjoyed the conference. . The conference papers will also be published by IEEE Xplore. The best talks in each session were voted by the audience for inclusion in special journal issues to be published We expect two special feature issues on extended papers from the conference talks will be published by well known international journals. For further details, or to get in touch with any of the participants, please contact CityU PHM Centre at phmc@cityu.edu.hk.

The next PHM conference is scheduled in Shenzhen, China 2011.

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Important Date

September 30, 2009	Abstract Submission
October 15, 2009	Abstract Acceptance
November 15, 2009	Full Paper Due
January 12-14, 2010	Conference

PHM-2010 Macau Conference Final Program

PHM-2010 Macau Conference Final Progam is available for download. This document contains the information on the presentation schedule, the meeting rooms, registration hours, banquet arrangements and conference services. Call for Papers Flyer, please click here
Conference Announcement on 15 October 2009, please click here

Conference Venue:

University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau, China

How to get there:

Hotel Recommendation:

	11-14 January 2010
Regency Hotel, Macau	HKD550.00
Altira Macau	HKD1,800.00

Download: Regency Hotel Registration Form

Regency Hotel, Macau: 2 Estrada Almirante Marques Esparteiro, Taipa Island, Macao

 

Download: Altira Macau Registration Form

Altira Macau: Avenida de Kwong Tung, Taipa, Macau

 

Programme:

The PHM-2010 Macau Committee has invited a high-ranking research institutes and international companies to join and present their PHM research in the conference.

Selected Presentation Highlights

• Bayesian Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts and Its Application to Aircraft Engine Fault Detection and Diagnosis, GE Global Research, USA
• Air Vehicle Reliability for Metallic Structures, US Navy, USA
• Description of the TRIADE Programme of the European Framework 7: New Technology Building Blocks for Data Acquisition and Processing, EADS Innovation Works, France
• A Neuro-Fuzzy Self Built System for Prognostics: A Way to Ensure Good Prediction Accuracy by Balancing Complexity and Generalization, FEMTO-ST Institute, France
• Solution and Reliability Design Support of Complex Influence of Design Factor on Electronic Device, Yokohama National University, Japan
• Methodologies for Uncertainty Representation and Management in Prognostics, Impact Technologies, LLC, USA
• Using COX Proportional Hazard Model for Multivariate Prognostic Analysis of Bearings, University of Illinois, USA
• Guiding principles and trends for Prognostics and Health (Quality) Management, University of Washington, USA
• A Stochastic Filtering Based Data Driven Approach for Residual Life Prediction and Condition Based Maintenance Decision Making Support, University of Salford, UK
• Fusion Approach for Predictive Maintenance of Heritage Structures, University of Greenwich, UK
• Extending Advanced Failure Effects Analysis to Support Prognostics and Health Management, PHM Technology Pty Ltd, Australia
• A Simple HUMS Approach to Detect Characteristic Variation for Mechanical System, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
• Machine Health Prognostics Based on Cox-Proportional Hazard Model and Support Vector Machine, Pukyong National University, Korea

 

PHM Tutorials
(University of Macau, Macau, China, 12 January 2010, 14:00-17:00)

• Tutorial 1: PHM for Wireless Health Monitoring Networks
• Tutorial 2 : PHM Application for Aviation Industry
• Tutorial 3 : PHM technology Development towards Data Fusion and Infotronics

 

TUTORIAL 1: PHM FOR WIRELESS HEALTH MONITORING NETWORKS

Wireless devices are gaining in popularity as a method for monitoring the health of the human body. Technical advances in small bio-sensors that are worn on patients’ bodies and that utilize wireless body area networks can capture data more accurately and can be manufactured more economically. These devices can enable general health assessment of patients, help patients to maintain fitness, aid in rehabilitation, and warn of potentially harmful conditions.

Bio-sensor devices must be supported by reliable wireless communication systems that capture sensor data and relay it for subsequent analysis and storage. Prognostics and health management (PHM) of electronics can play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability of these wireless health monitoring networks.

This tutorial will provide attendees with knowledge of how PHM techniques can be applied to wireless health monitoring networks. The tutorial will cover the factors that affect the reliability of these networks and demonstrate how PHM can successfully address these concerns.

TUTORIAL 2: PHM APPLICATION FOR AVIATION INDUSTRY

Safety and economy are critical objectives for aircraft manufactures and airlines. As to the aircraft, structure, airborne equipments and aero-engine are of paramount importance. Aviation industry will face difficult challenges as it seeks to maintain the highest standards of safety, whilst maximizing profit.

PHM implementation can help the aviation industry to significantly improve safety standard. Relevant PHM technologies and techniques will be presented in this tutorial. In particular, advanced monitoring technologies, diagnostic tools for PHM objectives will be presented and specific illustrations of PHM applications related to aero-engine will be described.

TUTORIAL 3: PHM TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS DATA FUSION AND INFORTRONICS

PHM/CBM technology has been receiving extensive interests. This tutorial will present the concepts and methods associated with data-driven PHM. Attendees will learn about basic techniques steps and popular tools.

Future PHM developing trend will also be introduced, particularly on the implementation of data fusion techniques. Fusing large amount of mutual information at feature or decision levels can bring about enhanced PHM performances. Attendees will learn about typical data fusion solution and efficient fusion algorithms. Methodology on designing data fusion based health monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics will be introduced, with practical engineering cases. The other character is focusing on infotronics techniques that implement internet, wireless communication, embedded sensors, and intelligent technology. The development of infotronics integrated PHM technology platform is becoming major research direction. Some typical research programs will be introduced.

Registration:

To register for the conference, please download registration form.

 

Guides For Oral Presenters and Participants:

Guides For Oral Presenters

• Please do bring a copy of your slides in a thumb drive (memory stick) and submit your presentation slides to our IT Support at "Presenter Help Desk" on the day of conference.  Length of presentation material should be in accordance to your allotted time.
  
  
• We strongly encourage you to prepare the slides using the Microsoft Word Powererpoint. Please present yourself at the venue at least 15 minutes before the session commences, to enable the uploading of your presentation onto the laptop.
  
  
• The computers in the meeting rooms are being provided to Windows-based PC users. The PC will be configured with Microsoft Windows XP operating system as well as with Microsoft Office 2003.
  
  
• English will be the onlymedium in the conference. 
  
  
• Note that our conference committee strongly discourages no-show. The organizer will only send Conference Proceedings to full‐fee participants with reasons acceptable to the committee. 

Guides For Participants

• The Venue for the events (tutorials, opening ceremony and presentation sessions) on January 12-14, 2010 will be held at the University Library, University of Macau Campus.
  
  
• The Welcome Banquet will be held at Ball Room, Regency Hotel Macau, 2 Estrada Almirante Marques Esparteiro, Taipa Island, Macau.
  
  
• Shuttle bus service between Regency Hotel and the conference venue will be provided to all participants on January 12-14, 2010.  Please refer to the final program (page 7) for the shuttle bus schedule.
  
  
• The weather in Macau would be very pleasant with perhaps occasional showers. The temparatures will be in the range of 13 to 20 degrees celsius.
  
  

 

Travel Guide:

Travel Guide will providethe Macau travel information for planning the trip.

Travel Guide:

Travel Guide

 

Travel Information:

Macau is a glorious slice of the Mediterranean tucked away on the South China Sea.  It is this rick history that makes the cultural heritage of Macau special.  There are many museums, monuments, churches and temples in Macau.  A Portuguese colony for more then 500 years, Macau has retained much of its colonial charm, such as Largo do Senado, (Senado Square) contains some of the most quintessentially Portuguese buildings in the city.  The square is next to the main raod, Almeida Ribeiro.  Just north of the square lies the impressive ruins of Sao Paulo, (St Paul's), once the biggest church in Asia.

If you're looking to explore the angel of Chinese Macau, you should head for a stroll along Rua De Felicidade.  This district is packed with traditional shops, as well as Macau's oldest restaurant, Fat Siu Lau, which serves up a specialized roasted pigeon.

And if culture doesn't interest you, there is always the "Las Vegas of the East".  Macau has recently outstripped Las Vegas to become the gambling centre of the world.  In 2008, Macau pulled in US$13.7 billion in revenue and outstripping the reported in Les Vegas to become the world's biggest casino draw.  The Venetian Macau is twice the size of the Las Vegas original and offers a mind-boggling 10.5 million square feet.  The attraction of Macau has clocked 30 million visitor in 2008!!

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• The Macau Government Tourist Office

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Useful Documents

Manuscript Template
Copyright Transfer Form
Conference Registration Form
Manuscript Correction Form

Manuscript Publication Guidelines

We are glad that you will be presenting your work at the upcoming PHM-2010 Macau Conference on 12-14 January 2010 at University of Macau. Only a submission of an electronic version of your paper is required for the paper to be included in the PHM-2010 Macau Proceedings.

The length of the paper is expected to be 6 to 8 pages. Papers that are slightly longer or shorter are acceptable. For simplicity, you can use MSWord as your word processing software and use our preformatted template file obtainable below. Most formatting concerns should be addressed through the use of the provided template; however, should any questions arise, please contact Ms Angie Wong for assistance at:

Tel: +852 34429861
Fax: +852 34420272
E-mail: phmconf@cityu.edu.hk

Full Paper Submission Due Date: November 15, 2009

1. Dos and DON’Ts in Manuscript Preparation

Manuscript submissions before the submission due date are advisable to allow additional time for corrections. Slight deviations from the provided template will be accepted; however, to preserve the professional look of the published materials, we do require consistency in formatting.

Your electronic files should be sent in a .doc format. To maintain good printing quality, we request authors:

• Insert all of your diagrams and graphics / photos directly into the word file.


• Use only white background for text and figures so as to obtain good contrast and readability.


• Scan your black and white images at 300dpi and your color images at 600dpi. In some cases, the quality of images printed on high resolution laser printers may be sufficient. Please check with the Conference Secretariat.


• If inserting large images, follow the steps below:


• Set the bit density to 300 or 600 dpi in a photo gram;


• Resize the photo to the size you wish to have in the final paper


• Insert your image from the smaller file as it results in much smaller word files.


• Papers submitted via email should not exceed 5MB in size for the entire electronic document.



We request that you use the Manuscript Template. It includes the correct borders, column layout, and styles for Title, Section Headers and Text. We also request that you name your files according to the following format: “mu1111.doc where stands for “Manuscript Number 1111” and the “.doc” is the file extension of an MS Word document. If you do not know your manuscript number, please use your last name to name your file. If you have several files for the same paper such as an MS Word file and several image files with figures, name the files in the following way:

• mu1111a.doc is the Word File;


• mu1111b.bmp is the 1st image file;


• mu1111c.tif is the 2nd image file, etc.





2. How to submit the full paper?
Manuscript can be sent via email to phmconf@cityu.edu.hk (file size: max. 5MB) or mailed on a CD to the following address:

PHM-2010 Macau
CityU PHM Centre,
Department of Electronic Engineering,
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon, Hong Kong



3. Copyright Transfer

Papers will be printed in the PHM-2010 Macau Proceedings only if the authors copyright has been transferred to the PHM-2010 Macau Conference. Please download and fill out Copyright Transfer Form and fax it to +852 34420272 or e-mail to phmconf@cityu.edu.hk


4. Manuscript Correction

If you would like to make any addition or correction on your manuscript, please fill in the Manuscript Correction Form together with the revised manuscript and e-mail to phmconf@cityu.edu.hk.


5. Presentation and Registration

As the purpose of the PHM-2010 Macau Conference is to present and exchange the idea of the recent PHM research. All the papers in the conference proceedings MUST be presented in the conference. Otherwise, prior approval from organizing committee is needed. All rights reserved to withdraw any paper without presentation in the conference.

Committee:

General Chair	Michael Pecht	City University of Hong Kong and CALCE-University of Maryland
Co-Chairs	Martins Rui	University of Macau
	Rui Kang	Beihang University
	Fu Yun	CAPE, China
	Kong Xue Dong	CEPREI, China
	Chris Bailey	University of Greenwich
	Y C Chan	City University of Hong Kong
Technical Committee	Keyun Bi	Standing Committee of China Institute of Electronics
	Peter Rundle	Rundle Law Corporation
	Wenbin Wang	University of Salford and City University of Hong Kong
	Tom C H Chung	ASTRI, Hong Kong
	Tommy W S Chow	City University of Hong Kong
	Peter W T Tse	City University of Hong Kong
	Jon Huang	Lenovo
	Satnam Singh	GM India Science Lab
	Sheng Liu	Huazhong University of Science and Technology
	Andy Tan	Queensland University of Technology
	Bo-Suk Yang	Pukyong National University
	Hongfu Zuo	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
	XinPing Yan	Wuhan University of Technology
Advisory Board	Dave Anand	CECD, USA
	Calvin Chui	Willas-Array Electronics
	Fulei Chu	Tsinghua University
	Jianrong Wang	Northeastern University
	Jin Chen	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	K T Ng	City University of Hong Kong
	L M Cheng	City University of Hong Kong
	Li Wang	Nankai University
	Ricky Lee	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Simon S Ang	University of Arkansas
	Stephan Lam	IBM Microelectronics Division, Hong Kong
	Tielin Shi	Huazhong University
	Tony Chen	GSMC, China
	Yuk-lam Lo	Hong Kong
	Y L Wang	Central South University
	Wei Chen	Eindhoven University of Technology
	Zhengjia He	Xi'an Jiaotong University
Program Committee	Daniel Lau	PHM Centre, City University of Hong Kong
	Jingsong Xie	Beihang University
	Bernard Fong	PHM Centre, City University of Hong Kong
	Qiang Miao	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
	Jie Gu	Baker Huges, USA
	Xiaoli Li	Institute for Infocomm Research
	Gang Niu	PHM Centre, City University of Hong Kong
	Zhenhua Wen	PHM Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Conference Secretary	Angie Wong	PHM Centre, City University of Hong Kong

Contact us:

Secretariat of PHM-2010 Macau
CityU International Centre of Excellence in PHM
Department of Electronic Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue,
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3442 9861
Fax: +852 3442 0272
E-mail: phmconf@cityu.edu.hk