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Pierre Dersin
Born in Belgium in 1953, obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) after receiving a Master’s degree in O.R. in 1976, also from
MIT.
He
worked in the late seventies on reliability of large electric power
networks, as part of the Large Scale System Effectiveness Analysis
Program sponsored by the US Department of Energy, from MIT and
Systems Control Inc. and later joined FABRICOM (Belgium and U.S),
where he was involved with fault diagnostic systems for factory
automation.
Since 1990 with ALSTOM Transport, he has occupied several positions,
mainly involved with RAMS and Maintenance, including R&D Manager of
the Service business, and is now RAM Director in ALSTOM Transport’s
Information Solutions ( i.e. railway signalling and communication)
product line.
He
has contributed a number of communications and publications in
IEEE conferences and journals (including the 2008 and 2009 RAMS
Symposia and MMR 2009),in the fields of RAMS, automatic control and
electric power systems. He was the chairman of UNIFE’s (Union of
European Railways Manufacturers) LCC/RAM working group in
1998-2001.
Examples of recent publications:
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“Predicting Duration and Cost of reliability-related Warranty
extension”, Lambda-Mu 2006
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“ Statistical Estimation and Demonstration of complex System
Availability “ (with A.Birolini), Lambda-Mu 2006.
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“Selecting Test & Maintenance Strategies to achieve
Availability target with lowest Life-cycle Cost,”, RAMS 2008.(
with A.Péronne, C.Arroum)
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“Trade-off between built-in test coverage rate and inspection
periodicity to achieve a given service reliability level”,
Lambda-Mu 2008.
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‘Maximising cost-effectiveness of European Rail Traffic
Management System (ERTMS) by optimising maintenance policy” (
ITS, Sept. 2009), with A.Patra, U.Kumar
e-mail:
pierre.dersin@gmail.com
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