WCEAM 2007 Second World Congress on Engineering Asset Management

WCEAM 2007

Second World Congress on Engineering Asset Management

The second World congress on Engineering Asset management (WCEAM) was held from 11-14 June 2007 at the Carin Hotel in Harrogate, United Kingdom. It was organized by COMADIT of The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) in close co-operation and partnership with the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM). The combined second WCEAM and fourth International Conference on Condition Monitoring was the largest event ever organized by BINDT on an international level. In total, there were over 300 forum delegates and accompanying persons, including 267 speakers and 14 exhibitors, representing 32 countries. World leading industrial companies were involved in the forum, including: Rolls-Royce, Airbus UK, Smiths Aerospace, RMS Reliability and RWE Power International from the UK; Caterpillar and Snell Infrared from the US; and Shell Global Solutions, Bruel and Kjaer Vibro and SKF from Europe.

Highlights of the forum included:

  • 12 plenary keynote and invited distinguished speakers from Australia, China, Great Britain, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and USA;
  • Six free-of-charge workshops
  • Two free of charge tutorials and an open session organized by Airbus UK
  • An extensive exhibition by world leading hardware and software vendors
  • More than 200 papers peer-reviewed by the international scientific committee and the international steering committee

Keynotes

  • Prof J Amadi-Echendu, Prof R Willett, Prof K Brown, Prof J Lee, Prof J Mathew, Prof N Vyas, Prof B Yang – “ What is engineering asset management?”
  • Dr M Schulz, Dr Shanov, Dr Yun, University of Cincinnati, USA. – “Nanostructured smart materials for engineering asset evaluation and condition monitoring”
  • Prof N Bose, Pennsylvania State University – “Miniaturised computational imaging system design for super resolution, large field-of-view and extended depth-of-field with applications to surveillance, mediation imaging and condition-based-maintenance”
  • Mr Paul Anuzis, Rolls Royce plc – “Predictable behavior-achieving enhanced reliability”
  • Prof F K Chang, Dr M Miller, Dr Beard, Dr Liu, Stanford University, Accent Technologies – “Optimizing performance, reliability and maintenance through structural health monitoring”

Prof R Tatum, Cranfield University – “Optical speckle shearography for quantitative surface strain measurement”

Organisers

  • Prof Len Gelman, Cranfield University
  • Team of specialists from the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing

The event was organised by Professor Len Glenman and team from the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing and received strong financial support from the following organizations:

  • AMT-SYBEX (UK)
  • Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM)
  • Global Sensor Technology (UK)

More than 20 in-kind sponsors supported the Forum:

  • EPSRC (UK)
  • UKTA (UK)
  • RWE Power (UK)
  • RMS Reliability (UK)
  • Shell (Europe)
  • MFPT (USA)
  • The Chinese Society for Technical Diagnostics
  • The Polish Society for Technical Diagnostics
  • The Russian Acoustical Society