For companies developing and supplying equipment to the offshore industry, the degree of success is highly dependent on the reliability of delivered systems in operation. This comprises both operability and safety functions, and hence control systems need to go through extensive testing before being installed on new or existing systems. The possibility for testing a system in full scale before ...

In the Prognostics and Health Management domain, estimating the remaining useful life (RUL) of critical machinery is a challenging task. Various research topics including data acquisition, fusion, diagnostics and prognostics are involved in this domain. This paper presents an approach, based on shapelet extraction, to estimate the RUL of equipment. This approach extracts, in an offline step, di...

According to WHO, at any one time, around 50 per cent of medical equipment in lowand middle-income countries cannot be used because of lack of maintenance or spare parts.1 We have found that unwillingness or inability to repair equipment and put it back in use is also a major cause. New equipment is made available by different international non-government organisations (INGOs) competing with on...

Objectives. We compared two index screening tests for early diagnosis of functional pain: pressure pain measurement by electronic diagnostic equipment, which is accurate but too specialized for primary health care, versus peg testing, which is cost-saving and more easily manageable but of unknown sensitivity and specificity. Early distinction of functional (altered pain perception; nervous sens...

This paper describes an innovative design of a newly developed large test setup for testing the performance of footings supported on soft clay reinforced with granular columns. This advanced testing method is used to examine the settlement of footings supported on granular columns. Two important features of the equipment are a the axial loading system which allows samples to be consolidated und...

OBJECTIVES To describe our experiences with a continuous quality improvement process for the standardization of multicenter urodynamic studies (UDSs) in a multi-institutional network. Multicenter UDSs can have considerable variations in testing procedures, training, equipment, and reviewer biases. METHODS A quality control process was developed that included protocol development, certificatio...

Dive computer validation is currently a widely discussed topic for which there is no uniform procedure for testing and validation. Many dive computer manufacturers claim that their products are personal protective equipment. However, dive computers are not listed in the directive for personal protective equipment (PPE Directive 89/686/EEC). EN13319 is one European normative that is frequently a...

In order to analyze the operation of the protection system during induced fault testing in the Croatian power system, a simulation using the CAPE software has been performed. The CAPE software (Computer-Aided Protection Engineering) is expert software intended primarily for relay protection engineers, which calculates current and voltage values during faults in the power system, so that relay p...