PHM Society News

Long before the PHM Society was established, researchers and practitioners in the nascent field of PHM got together at the IEEE Aerospace Conference every year. For years, the Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Health Management track (Track 11) served as the premier venue for publishing PHM papers and interacting with PHM colleagues in a casual setting. The PHM…

Due to numerous requests for the extension of the deadline, we have extended the submission deadline for the Annual Conference of the PHM Society 2010 to June 7 Monday. We will not extend the deadline beyond that date. If you have already submitted a draft, please send your final paper to the Technical Program Committee by June 7. If…

In San Diego, we had a very successful Doctoral Consortium with 13 student participants. In Portland, we will continue the Doctoral Consortium tradition. The Doctoral Consortium provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their research interests and plans at a formative stage in their research. The students receive structured guidance from a panel of distinguished researchers as well as…

Here are some pictures from PHM’09.

The PHM Society invites participants to show off their diagnostic and prognostic engineering approaches through hardware demonstrations. The concept of the hardware demonstrations is to offer a hands-on learning experience for attendees. Demonstrations will be given as hands-on tutorials to small groups. Each tutorial will last for approximately 30 minutes where attendees will be allowed to ask questions. As an…

The International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (ijPHM) recently published its first full paper entitled Metrics for Offline Evaluation of Prognostic Performance. The new paper by Abhinav Saxena and colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center is an important milestone in the maturing field of PHM. Business models for PHM are still being debated and established, and…

PHM Society Forums and User Directory are now online. User can edit their public profiles via the “my account” link on the right.

The Annual Conference of the PHM Society will take place in Portland, Oregon on October 10-14, 2010. The 2010 conference is going to be colocated with the 21st Annual Workshop on the Principles of Diagnosis (DX’10). DX’10 will run from October 13 to October 16. The Call for Papers may be downloaded here. Important dates: Full papers…

Two best paper awards were presented during the 2009 PHM Conference: Best Paper – Applications and Implementation: Seth S. Kessler, Christopher T. Dunn, Michael Borgen, Ajay Raghavan, Jeffrey Duce, and David L. Banks, “A Cable-Free Digital Sensor-Bus for Structural Health Monitoring of Large Area Composite Structures” Best Paper – Theory and Research: Bhaskar Saha and Kai Goebel,…

If you are attending the Annual Conference of the PHM Society, please take a moment to share your thoughts and comments with us. You can find the survey here.