Fall RAMS Training

Speakers are partners of the MTBF Montréal. They are Experts coming from various industries. All of them have previous teaching experience through seminars or lectures.

Alan Dune is leading a team to ensure that CN's deployment of Positive Train Control (PTC) achieves its objectives of high Reliability, Availability, and Maintenance (RAM). The team predicts RAM Key Performance Indicators based on mathematical models taking into account hardware and software reliability, as well as human factors. He works with the product vendors to ensure they meet RAM and quality commitments and he also works with the CN PTC architects to assess the CN implementation from a RAM perspective.

Zdzislaw Klim is an Associate Professor and currently teaches reliability at a graduate level in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnique de Montréal. His research interests are in the fields of systems reliability and maintainability analysis, and safety and risk assessment. He is also an Associate Professor at University of Québec at Trois-Rivières (Canada). He was also a Principal Engineering Specialist in the Department of Reliability, Maintainability and Safety at Bombardier Aerospace for the past 22 years. His responsibilities included reliability and safety analysis for in-service aircraft systems, technical support for new programs and development of the new methods for reliability, safety and cyber security assessment. He holds Bachelor and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in reliability from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland. He has more than 35 years of experience in the field of reliability, maintainability and safety analysis. He is the author of more than 50 technical papers and reports. He is a Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and Association of Professional Engineers of Quebec (O.I.Q.).

Ilie Cacipu has over 25 years of experience in design for safety, reliability, availability and maintainability of aircraft systems, in certification reports and processes within A220, CRJ 200/700/900, Challenger 300/604/605, Global Express and Puma programs. He was the Bombardier Aerospace Design for Reliability Coordinator and Technical Knowledge focal during development of A220 (former C Series), program that achieved one of the best reliability at entry into service across the industry. Ilie Cacipu is a member of Industry Design for Reliability WGs (PERM, Physics of Failures Standard).

Dragan Komljenovic received his BSc at the University of Tuzla, Master’s degree at the University of Belgrade, the first PhD at Laval University (Canada) in 2002, and the second PhD at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres (Canada) in 2018. He works as a researcher at the Hydro-Quebec’s Research Institute (IREQ) in the field of reliability, asset management, risk analysis, and maintenance optimization. Prior to joining IREQ, he worked as a Reliability and Nuclear Safety Engineer at the Nuclear Generating Station Gentilly-2, Hydro-Quebec. He was also appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada (Industrial Research Chair “Risk-Based Life Cycle Management of Engineering Systems”) and Laval University in Quebec-City (mining engineering). He has published more than 70 refereed journal and conference papers. Dragan also worked in the mining industry as well as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Tuzla and Laval University. Dr. Komljenovic is the Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM).

The past 15 years of reliability and safety related experience exposed Sorin Voiculescu to a wide variety of field cases across several large companies including Bombardier, Airbus, Schlumberger, Peugeot Citroën, ECE Zodiac, Renault, etc. He joined the CSeries project in 2010 and was part of the design, certification and post-entry into service phases of the most recent clean-sheet design airplane in the world. He has a Reliability dedicated PhD from University of Angers, France. He joined Concordia’s Gina Cody School of Engineering in August 2018. He is the Secretary of the Montreal Chapter of the Society of Reliability Engineers and a member of the IEEE Reliability Society.

The Event is an initiative of Dr. Sorin Voiculescu, Lecturer at Concordia University and is organized by Concordia University’s Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Dr. Sorin Voiculescu joined Concordia in 2018 after a rich industrial reliability and safety related experience in a variety of field cases across several large companies including Bombardier, Airbus, Schlumberger, Peugeot Citroën, ECE Zodiac, Renault, etc.

With a unique combination of theoretical methods and practical expertise and based on his joint European and North-American experience, Dr. Sorin Voiculescu is covering technical aspects in all the phases of a design, e.g. contractual negotiations, design trade-offs, verification and validation methods, tailored maintenance, real time health monitoring, etc.

All tickets include full access to seminars.
Except for the one-day tickets, the price includes the Concordia RAMSES certificate.
OIQ regulation respecting mandatory continuing education for engineers: the program’s activities are eligible for 30h of OIQ continuing education if the content is related to your professional activities.
All tickets include the dedicated tools associated to the presented topics.
Lunch and coffee is included.
Participation to the Special event is included.

OIQ regulation respecting mandatory continuing education for engineers: the program’s activities are eligible for 30h of OIQ continuing education if the content is related to your professional activities.

The seminars welcome professional involved at various levels in the life cycle of a product:
- high management,
- specialists,
- integrators,
- design,
- development and test engineers,
- supply chain,
- maintenance planning, etc.

Globalization and strong competition are part of a typical operational and business environment. The ability of enterprises to create and implement innovative concepts is decisive to meet the demands regarding competitiveness, and to ensure their operations and further development.

RAMS is part of any engineering, such as mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, electronic, software, human factors, etc. It is also part of any phase of a project, starting from case study, going through design, prototype validation, production, operational maintenance.

It has been proven that having a company-wide RAMS culture implemented always brings long-term benefits: low maintenance costs, increased customer satisfaction, optimized maintenance schedule or increased sales are just some of them.

The RAMS engineer is responsible for setting up the process and employing the best techniques to use.

The senior management's role is to ensure an environment where the team keeps reliability, safety and quality goals clearly in mind. The management should encourage all members of the team to use the appropriate RAMS methods and principles.

The applicability of dedicated RAMS techniques and methods goes down to engineering level. Every single engineer should employ the techniques proposed by the reliability engineers and approved by management through the reliability, safety and maintainability program plan.

If you want to improve reliability and reduce risk, to reduce the life cycle costs of the product, to improve and protect the brand image by reducing warranty costs and customer complaints, to optimize maintenance strategies, to improve availability or to assess and improve safety, you need the RAMSES Certificate.

RAMSES - June 2019