Call for Papers MCMD 2020 The 5th International Conference on Maintenance, Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics

Dear friends and partners, December 15 – 17, 2020 | It is our great pleasure to invite you to join us at the Fifth Conference on Maintenance, Condition Monitoring and Original Sokos Hotel Arina Diagnostics, MCMD 2020, which will take place on 15 – 17 December 2020 in Oulu, . The background of this conference series is in the 20-years history of MCMD conferences and the 10-years history of International Society of Condition Monitoring, ISCM. The conference is organized Key dates by University of Oulu and Expomark Oy in cooperation with Thematic session proposals and short abstracts ISCM and Finnish Maintenance Society, Promaint. The Original Proposals with short abstracts June 26, 2020 Sokos Hotel Arina Conference Center in the middle of the city Notification of acceptance lyJu 10, 2020 serves as the venue. Full Scientific and Industrial Contributions The MCMD 2020 provides a forum where condition Extended abstracts June 26, 2020 monitoring and risk management professionals from Notification of acceptance lyJu 10, 2020 industry and science exchange knowledge, experiences and Full draft paper submission August 15, 2020 strengthen multidisciplinary network. On the stage, visions Notification of acceptance September0, 1 2020 are presented and shared with old and new colleagues. Final camera-ready manuscripts October 30, 2020 The conference focuses on the latest developments in Discussion and Student Contributions maintenance and monitoring especially in the process Short abstracts July 31, 2020 and energy industries. Central themes include condition Notification of acceptance August 15, 2020 monitoring and diagnostics as factors improving productivity, Short draft paper submission September 10, 2020 quality and operational reliability increasing profitability and Notification of acceptance September 30, 2020 reducing environmental load of industrial processes. The Final camera-ready short papers October 30, 2020 program includes invited talks, parallel, special and poster sessions, exhibition and technical tours. All scientific papers Industrial Extended Abstract Contributions are going to be reviewed for the conference proceedings Short abstracts June 26, 2020 Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (LNME) by Springer. Notification of acceptance lyJu 10, 2020 Industrial, discussion and student papers and all extended Draft extended abstract August 15, 2020 abstracts will be published by Promaint. Notification of acceptance September0, 1 2020 Final extended abstract November 5, 2020 We are inviting you to submit your contribution to the high standard international condition monitoring and maintenance Author registration October 30, 2020 conference. MCMD 2020 Conference December 15 – 17, 2020 Please visit http://www.intiscm.org for further information. MCMD 2020 Secretariat We look forward to meeting you in Oulu on December 2020! Expomark Oy Esko Juuso, MCMD 2020 Chair Puistokatu 2-4 C Mika Ruusunen, IPC Chair FI-40100 Jyväskylä, Finland Jaakko Tennilä, NOC Chair Tel. +358 (0)10 830 0800 | info(at)expomark.fi Areas of Interest Submissions Papers from authors with academic and/or industrial Five types of contributions can be offered to the MCMD 2020 affiliation are encouraged. Topics are focused but not conference: limited to: Scientific papers must be written in English and will be accepted for presentation based on a peer review of the draft Condition monitoring (CM) papers. The peer-reviewed conference articles planned to be CM in process industry published in Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (LNME) Structural health monitoring by Springer. CM of vehicles Industrial papers can be submitted as scientific papers. CM in energy production and energy conservation Additionally, industrial papers written in English, Finnish or Signal processing for CM Swedish can be submitted as full papers to be reviewed for Advanced reasoning and diagnostic methods in CM publication in the conference proceedings published by Finnish Sensor technologies Maintenance Society, Promaint. Interesting case reports are IoT and AI in CM welcomed as well. Prognostics and CM Extended abstracts: The presentation at the conference can also be accepted on the basis of extended abstracts without a Maintenance full paper. Extended abstracts will be published by Promaint. Efficiency, effectiveness, productivity Short papers: Student/Discussion papers should follow the Life cycle cost optimization writing guidelines of scientific papers when applicable. The Quality, risk and maintenance services final guidelines will be available in review phase. Selected short Maintenance management systems papers will be published by journals of Promaint, https://www. E-maintenance promaint.net/. Maintenance tools and innovations Posters: Submissions are accompanied with short papers or Performance measurements extended abstracts. Safety and maintenance EasyChair is used for submissions of all abstracts, extended Maintenance trends abstracts, industry papers and short papers (discussion & student). Please follow the link https://easychair.org/ Novel technologies conferences/?conf=mcmd2020. Maintenance applications of mobile robot technologies Springer is planned to be used for scientific papers whose extended Environmental impacts of maintenance technologies abstracts have been accepted at EasyChair. The link will announced Energy conservation via maintenance later. The final manuscripts of industry papers and short papers as Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality applications in well as all final extended abstracts will be handled in EasyChair. maintenance On-line maintenance Scientific advisory committee Adjunct prof Esko Juuso (chair), University of Oulu, Finland Exhibition and tutorials Prof Diego Galar, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Exhibition area is available for presenting products and Prof Mika Ruusunen, University of Oulu, Finland services. The program includes vendor sessions to give Prof Jens Strackeljan, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, short presentations for wide audience. Tutorials provide Germany an additional option for longer presentations. Please Prof Len Gelman, University of Huddersfield, UK visit the conference website for further information and Dr Nadine Martin, French National Centre for Scientific registration for exhibition and tutorials. Research, CNRS, France Prof Andrew Starr, Cranfield University, UK Technical visits and social tours Prof emeritus Sulo Lahdelma, University of Oulu, Finland Dr Renata Klein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Technical visit will be organized by Expomark. Links Dr Suri Ganeriwala, SpectraQuest, USA will be provided for social tours arranged by service Mr Konsta Karioja, University of Oulu, Finland providers.

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