Interested in reliability of NDT? Are you a regulator? A service provider? Perhaps an end user? Or a scientist working with reliability? Then we have something in common – we have a “mission” to deal jointly with problems related to reliability.
We propose to meet in the evening of Tuesday 14. June at 6pm in Saal 4 (after session Tu.4.D Reliability Human Factors) for an informal discussion over some refreshments and finger food.
We envisioned this workshop in a format of an “Open Space Technology” workshop (for description, see below), a format which we successfully used during two successful previous meetings (5th and 6th European-American Workshop on Reliability of NDT) in 2013 and 2015. The summaries of those previous discussions can be found here:
- Mueller, C., Bertovic, M., Kanzler, D. & Ronneteg, U. (approved for publication).
Conclusions of the 6th European American Workshop on Reliability of NDE, AIP Conference Proceedings of the 42st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation.
- Bertovic, M., Calmon, P., Carter, L., Fischer, J., Forsyth, D., Holstein, R., … Selby, G. (2014).
Summary of the “Open Space Technology Discussions” on Reliability of NDE. Materials Testing, 56(7-8), 602–606. doi:10.3139/120.110604;
- Müller, C., Holstein, R., & Bertovic, M. (2014).
Conclusions of the 5th European American Workshop on Reliability of NDE. Materials Testing, 56(7-8), 599–601. doi:10.3139/120.110603;
Schedule
18:00 – 18:30 Introduction
18:30 – 18:45 Assembly of groups
18:45 – 20:00 Group discussion
20:00 – 21:00 Presentation of the discussion results
The aim
The aims of this Workshop are:
- to gather the experts in NDT reliability and all interested in topics related to reliability,
- to discuss burning topics with the aim of identifying crucial problems and
- to suggest ways to move forward.
What is “Open space technology”?
It is simply a method we use for the discussion. The benefit of this approach is in the freedom of topic choices, i.e. the topics are not predetermined but rather arise at that moment in that space and by the participants’ choice.
Everyone is invited to join! No experience is needed! You are encouraged to walk from one discussion group to another and openly express your opinions.
Wall of ideas
Each of the participants is asked to write down as many questions or topics as they wanted, and pin them up on the wall before the start of the Workshop. In the previous Workshops, those ideas were organized into 6 main topics:
A. New reliability methods: Multiparameter POD, MAPOD, Bayesian approach
B. Structural health monitoring
C. Applications in industry
D. Human factors
E. Integrated solutions and “delta”
F. Basic concepts of reliability of NDT
This time they can be different! Suggest any topics that cross your mind!
For example, new inspirations for the discussion 2016 might be:
- How to determine the reliability in the field, based on real defects?
- How to foster good safety culture in NDT? Where are you on the safety culture ladder?
- How to create a good balance between safety/reliability culture and written rules and regulations?
- Your question? Your topic of interest?
How it works
Open Space Technology, developed by Harrison Owen in the sixties, is one of the simplest methods to bring a big group of people together to discuss the topics that interest them. The choice of a topic, the duration, the participants and the flow of the discussion are in the participants’ hands.
- Every participant is invited to attend any discussion topic he/she likes
- Participants are free (and encouraged) to move from one session to another and openly discuss the topics with their peers
- Each session will result in a short written summary of each topic discussed
- The summary of each topic will be presented to the whole workshop audience at the end of the day.
The success of the discussion relies on the commitment and interest of everyone involved and follows simple principles and only one law.
The main principles:
- Whoever comes is the right people (people from different branches, people with different backgrounds, different positions etc. are all invited to join)
- Whenever it starts is the right time (spirit and creativity do not run on the clock)
- Wherever it happens is the right place (in the discussion room or at lunch break, the discussion never stops)
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could happen (the participants should let the discussion take its own flow, without trying to control it in any way)
- When it's over, it's over (there are no rules how long a discussion should last. If it has reached its end, it is finished. Move on.)
The law: law of two feet
The so-called “law of two feet” relies on the premise that everyone carries responsibility for themselves. If the participant is not contributing, not learning from the discussion, then he or she should use their feet and move on to another place, which allows them to be productive.