PHM Society News

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.

(You can submit your entries here) A few years back, Andy Hess came up with a promising PHM joke. The problem is, he never came up with a great punchline for the joke. This is your opportunity to complete the joke and to compete for a valuable award (not to mention fame and notoriety). The joke…

The proceedings of the Annual Conference of the PHM Society 2009 are now available here. We believe that the entire global scientific community benefits from free and unrestricted flow of scientific information. We are delighted to provide these peer-reviewed archival publications available to the entire PHM community over the internet. We appreciate your comments and feedback.

The PHM Society sponsors a data challenge annually, open to anyone. In addition to bragging rights, there is a cash prize for the winners in both the student and professional categories. However, the most exciting element of the challenge is the algorithms of the winning teams are published in detail in ijPHM, advancing the field of PHM as an engineering…

The International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (IJPHM) is an open access, archival journal related to multidisciplinary research on Prognostics, Diagnostics, and System Health Management. IJPHM publishes full-length regular papers, technical briefs, communications, and survey papers. IJPHM is currently accepting submissions for its inaugural volume. Full-length regular papers should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures…

A Doctoral Symposium was held at the Annual conference of the PHM Society 2009. PhD candidates who conduct relevant research in PHM were selected in a competitive process. During the symposium, doctoral candidates presented their research interests and questions to a panel of distinguished experts. The panel assessed the technical soundness of the approach; how well the work addressed a…