Raj B.K.N. Rao (COMADEM Centre, Faculty ofEngineering and Computer Technology, Birmingham Polytechnic, Perry Barr, Birmingham, UK) Y.H.J. Au and B.J. Griffiths (Department ofManufacturing and Engineering Systems, BruneI University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK) To create, to engineer, to err and to destroy are basic human traits. Human progress depends upon the balanced exploitation of some of these traits. Our quality and standards of living are closely intertwined with the effective management ofsome of these traits and the limited physical resources that are at our disposal. The only sensible approach to harmonize and blend these two spheres is to effectively monitor, diagnose and control our own actions and reactions, at every stage. We are now privileged to live in an age of advanced technology which is significantly influencing the basic infrastructures of our societies, on which our lives nowdepend. The rapid rate atwhichthe technological changesarespreading is causing much confusion and uncertainty in communities, governments and industries at different levels. This, in tum, is creating and widening gaps and mismatches of unknown dimensions in almost all human endeavours. Such undesirable tendencies mustbe monitored, diagnosed, prognosed and controlled with the utmost haste and urgency.

Keynote.- Condition monitoring today and tomorrow - an airline perspective.- Condition monitoring today and tomorrow - a manufacturing perspective.- Machine/Plant/Process Health Monitoring.- Dynamic performance of a hydrostatic thrust bearing with an ERFS and grooved lands.- The use of stress wave sensors for the diagnosis of bearing faults.- Monitoring of check valves in reciprocating pumps.- Signature analysis of a gear box of turbine generator set.- Condition monitoring of wear using acoustic emission techniques.- The condition monitoring of machine tools.- Condition monitoring systems for machining applications.- Tool wear monitoring by the analysis of surface roughness.- Characterization of the acoustic emission behaviour during quasi static punching tests.- The determination of cutting tool condition using vibration signals.- Monitoring tool wear during the turning process.- Monitoring of a production grinding process.- The technique of mesh obscuration for debris monitoring - the COULTER LCM II.- Finding what matters - health monitoring by FCM.- Grease - a suitable case for condition monitoring.- Engine monitors for efficient take-off performance monitors.- Condition/performance monitoring of internal combustion engine by continuous measurements of crankshaft twist angle.- Rotating machinery noise and vibration study.- Vibration analysis as tool for computerised machine monitoring.- Using a PC based system for machinery transient analysis.- Condition monitoring of key elements in high speed textile machinery.- On the monitoring of a high speed mechanical feeder by means of an in-time windowing technique.- Condition-Based Maintenance Management.- Condition based maintenance.- Cost effective computer software in maintenance management.- Conditionmonitoring based maintenance in practice in a heavy chemical plant.- Condition monitoring at a continuous coal handling facility.- Condition-based maintenance in the FMMS environment.- Predictive maintenance programme for GEN sets and reciprocating MUD pumps of oil fields.- A case study of the maintenance of Second World War military jeeps in Bhopal: A study in the resourcefulness of the local mechanics.- Maintenance strategy in the '90s.- Industrial Risk and Waste Management.- Risk and waste management in oil field.- Environmental Pollution Monitoring.- Environmental pollution monitoring in oil exploration and exploitation.- Quality and Reliability Management.- Comparison of the digraph and FAULTFINDER methods of fault tree synthesis for nested control systems.- A study on the hierarchal quality control in CIMS.- An experiment in automation of statistical process control using fuzzy logic.- Application of Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems.- Application of syntactic pattern recognition techniques to condition monitoring of machines.- An engineers's assistant for balancing of flexible rotors.- On-line decision making for diagnostic and monitoring purposes.- Expert systems for quality management in glass container production.- System-independent approaches to diagnostic knowledge reasoning and representation for mechanical and thermal systems.- Intellectualization of faults diagnosis of rotating machinery - expert system.- Amethyst: An expert system for the diagnosis of rotating machinery.- Integration of a PC based expert system shell and production line tracking system for failure diagnosis and rework definition.- An expert system with circulating notice for emergency in underground coal mine.- Medical Monitoring and Diagnostics.- Detection of periods ofsignificant activity in noisy signals.- Application of an expert system on the monitoring of human lungs.- Intelligent classification in EMG decomposition.- Advances in Instrumentation and Control Technology.- Octave band revisited - machine condition monitoring using octave band data collectors.- Tool wear monitoring sensors.- System detection instrumentation.- Real-time model and kinematic control of machine tools.- Digital capacitance displacement measuring instrument.- Optimisation and diagnosis for numerically controlled machining.- In-process measurement using an opto-electronic probe.- A new three dimensdion piezoelectric transducer for diagnostic engineering.- Improving the prediction of condition using simple sensors.- A high accuracy test technology used for on-line measurement of abrasion wear in bearings.- Advances in Diagnostic Engineering.- Machine diagnostics using the concepts of resolution ratio and automatic timing.- Condition assessment and forecasting form plant diagnostic data with pareto model.- Drift-fault diagnostics using fault-curves fitted to changes in dynamic response.- Fundamentals of linear time-varying plant for diagnostic engineering.- Computer Vision.- An artificial intelligent vision system for inspection and monitoring.- TEXYS: A real-time picture processing system for on-line quality control.- Advances in NDT/NDE.- Moire photography in engineering measurement.- Photogrammetry in industry.- Energy Management.- Energy management for conversion in oil rigs.- Continuing Education.- Continuing education/training on computerized automation.- Novel Techniques of COMADEM.- Forecasting the change of operating condition for machinery via fuzzy classification.- Homosource ANC and its application to the machinery diagnosis.- The phaseinformation in the rotor vibration behaviour analysis.- In-situ measurement of cylindricity.- Three-dimensional component inspection using a profile projector equipped with a fibre optic sensor.- Author Index.