Aims and scope

In the quarterly Eksploatacja i Niezawodność – Maintenance and Reliability there are published articles containing original results of experimental research on dependability, availability, reliability, durability, efficiency, risk and safety of technical items and complex systems. For publication there are considered articles presenting relevant assessments, analyses and experiments supported by real and physical interpretation of causes or outcomes, which have been verified empirically. In the journal there are published high quality articles on innovative modelling, novel approaches and enhanced research methods from the above mentioned technical fields.

The following research areas are mainly relevant to the journal:

1. Physics of Failure and Degradation Modelling
   Keywords: physics of failure, fatigue, corrosion, fracture, creep, ageing, degradation modelling, accelerated testing, durability, remaining life
2. Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
   Keywords: reliability, availability, maintainability, safety, repairable systems, multi-state modelling, reliability data analysis, reliability growth, reliability test planning, system modelling, RAMS LCC
3. Risk, Hazard, Uncertainty and Technical Safety Management
   Keywords: risk analysis, hazard analysis, uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, expert judgement, accident analysis, incident reporting, root cause analysis, functional safety, life-cycle safety
4. Maintenance Engineering, Asset Management, Life Cycle Costs and Logistics
   Keywords: maintenance strategies, planning, scheduling, optimisation, asset management, life-cycle costs and ownership costs, spare parts, inventory planning, forecasting, maintenance logistics
5. Diagnostics, Condition Monitoring and Fault Detection
   Keywords: condition monitoring, fault detection, fault isolation, signal processing, vibration, acoustic emission, thermography, oil analysis, anomaly detection
6. Prognostics, Health Management and Remaining Useful Life
   Keywords: prognostics, health management, remaining useful life, predictive maintenance, prescriptive maintenance, decision support, model validation, repair versus replacement, life-cycle impact
7. Human Factors, Human Reliability and Human Technology Interaction
   Keywords: human reliability, human error, ergonomics, organisational factors, safety culture, human machine interaction, operator support, competence, training, decision making
8. Industrial Applications, Field Studies and Case Reports
   Keywords: industrial applications, field data, deployment, validation in practice, lessons learned, benchmarking, performance indicators, reliability improvement, availability improvement, downtime cost
9. Digital Twins, IoT and Cyber Physical Systems
   Keywords: digital twins, connected monitoring, industrial data integration, edge analytics, sensor networks, hybrid models, interoperability, cyber physical systems, real-time monitoring
10. Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Reliability and Maintenance
    Keywords: machine learning, neural networks, Bayesian methods, data-driven modelling, explainability, model validation, data quality, feature engineering, reliability prediction, predictive maintenance, expert systems
11. Software Reliability and Safety-Critical Systems
    Keywords: software reliability, safety-critical systems, testing, verification, validation, quality assurance, fault tolerance, embedded systems, real-time systems, software failure models
12. Cybersecurity and Dependability of Safety-Critical and Industrial Systems
    Keywords: cybersecurity of safety-critical and industrial systems, OT security, dependability, safety-critical systems security, cyber-physical resilience, cascading failure analysis, threat-induced failure modes, secure-by-design for reliability
13. Tribology, Surface Engineering and Wear of Machine Components
    Keywords: tribology, friction, wear, lubrication, lubricant degradation, surface engineering, coatings, contact mechanics, surface metrology, wear diagnostics