I am looking forward to attending the forthcoming Conference relative to TES. These applied technologies offer a pagadigm shift  for manufacturing organisations seeking to compete through ever greater levels of servitization.  I have attached the conference themes below.


1st & 2nd November 2016                                                                                                                                            Vincent Building, Cranfield University, UK

About the Conference

The conference will be hosted at Cranfield on the 1st & 2nd November 2016.

The International Conference in Through-life Engineering Services is in its fifth year and it has grown interest of both academia and industry. Recently published report from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services (TES) has identified TES will be a critical discriminator in global markets for engineering support and services worth nearly £1 trillion by 2025. Today in the aerospace and defence sectors, over half the revenue is coming from these TES and it is growing. Other sectors, such as the railways, automotive, energy (including nuclear) and machine tools, have also recognised this potential and are striving to grow their TES activities. With the increasing popularity of performance or availability based contracts for high value equipment, manufacturers are looking to increase the life of components, reduce maintenance costs and thus maximise revenue. TES are those technical services that are necessary to guarantee the required and predictable performance of complex engineering systems throughout their expected operational life with the optimum whole life cost. TES research is focusing on developing technology and engineering solutions to address the new support requirements for these performance based contracts where maintenance is the major engineering service.

Conferernce Topics

Fundamentals of Through-life Engineering Services

   • Reliability Engineering, Condition Monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics

   • Remote Maintenance

   • Inspections

   • Degradation Assessment

 
Planning and Management of Through-life Engineering Services

   • Obsolescence Management

   • Supply and Support Chain

   • Uncertainty and Risk Assessment

   • Human Factors

 
Design for Through-life Engineering Services

   • Systems Design

   • Service Performance Feedback to Design

 
Manufacturing and Through-life Engineering Services

   • Service Performance Feedback to Manufacturing

   • Manufacturing Process Influence on Degradation

 
Technologies for Through-life Engineering Services

   • Sensors and Sensor Networks

   • Non-Destructive Testing

   • No Fault Found

   • Repair and Overhaul

   • Service Life Extension

 
Informatics for Through-life Engineering Services

   • Modelling and Simulation

   • Data Analytics

   • IoT and e-Maintenance

   • Data Security

   • Intelligent Maintenance

   • Augmented Reality

 
Future Through-life Engineering Services

   • Autonomous Maintenance

   • Robotic Maintenance

   • Self-Healing and Self-Repairing Systems

Applications of Through-life Engineering Services

   • Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM)

   • Maintenance of Railway Systems

   • Maintenance of Renewable Energy Systems

   • Maintenance in Nuclear Industry

   • Maintenance of Manufacturing Systems


For more information contact:

Postal Address

Through-life Engineering Services Centre

Building 30 Cranfield University

Cranfield

MK43 0AL

United Kingdom

enquiries@through-life-engineering-services.org


Phone: 01234 750111 x4031