Panel 1: Diversity and Mentorship in the PHM Community
Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are underway in all parts of society. The PHM Society wants to activate its policy: “The PHM Society welcomes, respects, and values all participants in its activities as it strives to fulfil its mission serving the global prognostics and health management community. The Society seeks to foster an inclusive and transparent environment where all individuals can contribute diverse ideas, experiences, perspectives and talents to help further the advancement of the PHM Society. The Society is committed to be diverse and inclusive while pursuing its goals of education, professional development, growth of global talent, fostering and recognizing leadership, and providing a non-competitive forum for networking and sharing best practices in the PHM field.”
The importance of mentorship on person’s career can be profound. A mentor can be someone who is further along in their career/education, someone who is at the same point in their career/education but is having different outcomes, or someone who possesses a skill (examples: system engineering, fault detection and isolation, program management, sensing systems, materials) or has a specific trait (examples: conflict resolution, decision making process, research and development planning, academic direction, diversity and inclusion) you would like to achieve for yourself. The PHM Society attracts and serves participants from across academia, industry, government, and defense who are at various stages of their education and careers. We can leverage and build this diversity of participants to share insights and lessons learned as we mentor one another to achieve the next higher level of ourselves. The Society’s PHMentor program has been launched.
The panellist and audience discussion is to be focused on sharing experience and perceived needs:
- How have technical communities and value chains been boosted by diversity, equity and inclusion and mentorship action?
- Where are the niches for the PHM community to contribute? What are the priority features of actions that can be led by the PHM Society?
In addition to the panel event on Friday, we will use the free PHME smart phone app with a discussion room prior and following the live session. Panellists and participants are invited to submit comments, suggested readings or links to this area.
Agenda for Wednesday 6 July 90 minute panel session:
20 minute welcome and introduction including PHM Society Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Policy and PHMentor program
60 minute discussion period with the audience
10 minute wrap-up to establish priorities
Discussion Facilitators:
Jeff Bird, TECnos Canada and PHM Society Education and Professional Development, and Standards Committees
Rhonda Walthall, Fellow, Integrated Aircraft Health Management, Collins Aerospace
Panel 2: PHM for Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are critical energy storage devices. They have been widely used from personal devices to large industrial applications such as electric vehicles, ships and satellites, etc. The advantages of lithium-ion batteries include high power and energy density, low self-discharge rate, long lifetime span, and no memory effect, among others. However, the main challenges are accurate and reliable management of batteries around their physical limits while avoiding safety issues and premature degradation.
To this end, it requires estimate and prediction of battery states, which include state-of-charge (SOC), remaining-dischargeable-time (RDT), state of health (SOH), remaining useful life (RUL), and state of safety (SoS), especially when these batteries work under dynamic loading profiles. Currently, many techniques have been developed, such as high-fidelity models, deep learning, digital twins, and smart grids. When battery techniques are combined with these new techniques, new challenges emerged. This panel aims to provide some thoughts and discussions about the challenges of PHM research on lithium-ion batteries. The discussion can also include other energy storage techniques, such as fuel cell.
The panellist and audience discussion is to be focused on these challenges:
- Q1: Real-time implementation of high-fidelity battery models
- Q2: Challenges and opportunities in data-driven battery aging diagnostics and prognostics
- Q3: Early prognosis and avoidance of battery thermal runaway
- Q4: Emerging sensing technologies for intelligent battery management
- Q5: Nonlinear and time-varying nature of battery degradation
In addition to the panel event, we will use the free PHME smart phone app with a discussion room prior and following the live session. Panellists and participants are invited to submit comments, suggested readings or links to this area.
Agenda on Thursday July 7 for a 90 minute panel session
A short 5-minute introductions
About 20 minutes pre-planned questions / conversation topics
About 55 minutes to take input from the audience
About 10 minutes to wrap up
Panelists:
Dr. Changfu Zou, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Weihan Li, RWTH Aachen University , Germany
Dr. Piero Baraldi, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Dr. Zhongliang Li, Aix-Marseille University, LIS laboratory, France
Dr. Murilo Osorio Camargos Filho, Lancaster University, UK
Chair: Dr. Bin Zhang, University of South Carolina, USA
Panel 3: Standards and Regulations – Affecting PHM Development and Application
A multitude of standards, guidelines and bodies of knowledge exist and are in development affecting PHM. Certification and regulations also drive the adoption of new technology in legacy and new applications. In addition, open source processes are being deployed for trust and integrity in applications (Rolls Royce Aletheia Framework aletheia-framework-booklet-2020.pdf (rolls-royce.com)).
The panellist and audience discussion is to be focused on these challenges:
- How can innovation, sustainability, business case rationalization and trustworthiness be boosted by regulations, standards and best practices?
- How can best practices, standards and regulations be more accessible, trusted and responsive to all parts of the research, development, commercialization and asset management value chain?
In addition to the panel event on Friday, we will use the free PHME smart phone app with a discussion room prior and following the live session. Panellists and participants are invited to submit comments, suggested readings or links to this area.
Agenda on Thursday 7 July for a 90 minute panel session:
12 minute welcome introduction including Aletheia Framework
3 panelists have 12 minutes each to address the above topics and leave the audience with two focused questions/challenges to discuss
32 minute discussion period with the audience facilitated by the panellists
10 minute wrap-up to establish priorities
Panelists:
Dr. Rune Prytz, Head of Research, Stratio
Dr. Yvonne Lu, University of Oxford, Engineering Science Computational Health Informatics Lab
Rhonda Walthall, Fellow, Integrated Aircraft Health Management, Collins Aerospace and SAE HM-1
Chair- Jeff Bird, TECnos Canada and PHM Society Education and Professional Development, and Standards Committees
Panel 4: PHM in Transportation
PHM use and development within transportation is a complex, multi-faceted topic – in this panel session we aim to discuss synergies, learnings and cross-discipline developments. Whilst road, rail and aerospace have differing requirements from PHM systems, it is important to consider the field as a whole in terms of overall development of PHM, and to encourage knowledge transfer throughout the field of transportation and PHM. With this in mind, the panellists will consider:
- Considering road, rail and aerospace, what are the primary areas in which recent developments in each field may be applicable to other?
- In the panelists areas of expertise, how can closer synergy between different transport industries help overcome current issues preventing further implementation of PHM systems?
In addition to the panel event on Friday, we will use the free PHME smart phone app with a discussion room prior and following the live session. Panellists and participants are invited to submit comments, suggested readings or links to this area.
Agenda for Friday 8 July 90 minute panel session:
20 minute welcome and introduction including short introductions from each panellist
60 minute discussion period with the audience
10 minute wrap-up
Panellists:
Kiran Harish, Lead Technologist, Aerospace Technology Institute
David Larsen, Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace
Miguel Franco, VP of Business Development, Stratio Automotive
Panel Facilitators:
Gabriel Michau, Stadler Rail
Ryan Walker, Oxford University