CONFERENCE ON MACHINERY CONDITION MONITORING CONFERENCE ON MACHINERY CONDITION MONITORING The 13th International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) will be held in Houston, Texas, USA on December 3-8, 2000 at the Houston Marriott Westside. The MFPT Society in cooperation with the Vibration Institute is organizing and hosting the conference. Dr. Raj B.K.N. Rao, Director of COMADEM International, and Mr. Henry C. Pusey, Executive Director of the MFPT Society, are Conference Chairs. Dr. Ronald L. Eshleman, President of the Vibration Institute is Chair of the Organizing Committee. Twenty-one prestigious sponsors of COMADEM 2000 are listed on the MFPT Society's Web Site (http://www.mfpt.org), along with links to their home pages. The Office of Naval Research, a continuing sponsor of our Society, is among them. Four other sponsors are organizing special sessions; look for them in the Technical Program. Exhibits of new products and services are very much a part of the Congress. Exhibit information and layout, along with registration forms, are available on the web. Six (6) optional two-day Technical Training Courses are offered in connection with the Congress. Complete details about the courses and the instructors are also available on the MFPT Web Site. The six courses are offered concurrently on December 7 and 8, 2000. Those interested must therefore choose only one course. The six courses are: "Overview of CBM and Predictive Maintenance Technologies, Machinery Vibration Analysis, Advanced Signal Analysis, Machinery Oils and Oil Analysis, Reliability Processes and Systems for Business Performance Improvement, and State-of-the-Art in Structural Damage Detection". Congress delegates and/or accompanying persons will also be able to select from Special Tours described on the web. The Technical Program begins with an Opening Session in which several distinguished invited speakers will discuss the importance of Condition Monitoring and Condition Based Maintenance to various industries. Mr. Andrew J. (Andy) Hess from the Naval Air Warfare Center will deliver the Keynote Address entitled "The Evolution of Aviation Mechanical Systems Monitoring: The A-7E to the Joint Strike Fighter". RADM Marc Y.N. Pelaez (USN,Ret.), Vice President of Business and Technology Development at Newport News Shipbuilding will speak on "CBM on Aircraft Carriers". Mr. Richard A. Curless' paper is entitled "Advanced Conditioned Based Monitoring Applications that will Improve Machine Tool Effectiveness". Curless is Vice President of Products and Technology at Cincinnati Machine, a UNOVA Company. Mr. John S. Mitchell is Vice President of Maintenance Operations and Engineering for ABB Industrial Products, Inc. and President of MIMOSA. Mitchell will speak on "CBM The Keys to Success". Dr. Raj B.K.N. Rao, Director of COMADEM International, will conclude the morning with a paper on "Knowledge, Discovery, Generation and Dissemination through COMADEM". Following the Opening Session are nineteen Technical Sessions, three Panel/Workshops and one Tutorial Session on Data Fusion. Professor Asoke K. Nandi, an internationally recognized researcher and author from the University of Liverpool, will open a session on the first afternoon with a special invited paper entitled "Digital Vibration Signal Processing for Condition Monitoring. A Preliminary Program is on the MFPT Web Site now; a Final Program will be there by early in October 2000. Abstracts and Biographies of all invited speakers will also be posted. Until then, all questions sent to the COMADEM 2000 Secretariat will receive a prompt response. Sallie C. Pusey, COMADEM 2000 Secretariat, 4193 Sudley Road, Haymarket, VA 20169-2420 WEB: Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology, http://www.mfpt.org. E-MAIL: Executive Director MFPT Society, hcpusey@ix.netcom.com. Posted 08/15/00 (W-SN486396).

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