INFRASTAR: A Great Opportunity to Learn TeamWork

Infrastar PhD s during second training week

Teamwork is a matter of practice and patience. 

Once you start working as a Marie-Curie PhD student, most probably, you will find yourself working with different labs, companies, universities, and research centres having several supervisors from those places. You might have monthly meetings with five or six people to present your improvement and results, therefore, it is necessary to improve your teamwork skills to be able to adapt yourself with such a working conditions.

In the other hand, there will be some other PhD students under the same Marie-Curie program which they can be considered as your classmates. They normally live in another city or country but since PhD topics are somehow related, there is a great opportunity of teamwork and developing ideas together as well. Mari-Curie team allocates some training weeks in which all PhD s under the same program gather together and share their ideas and try to find a way to cooperate with each other. 

As a Marie-Curie PhD student I would like to tell you that, not everyone find it easy to work under this highly team-basis conditions. It may look very interesting in the beginning, however, it is amazing, but I would say that seriousness and practice are very important factors to gain this teamwork skill. 

In the picture above you can see my classmates and some of our supervisors, however, we are not really in the same school and in the same class. 

Stay tuned for next post :)

Maintenance strategies: Preventive and Corrective

Among different types of maintenance strategies that were introduced before, preventive and corrective maintenance can be called the main strategies. 

Preventive maintenance actions are generally referred to those actions that are applied on the structure regularly and that try to maintain the structure from unexpected failures and keep it working.  Preventive maintenance defers the degradation process, hence, it extends the time needed for corrective actions and operational capacity will be increased. In the other hand, because they are performed timely and based on a routine, therefore, less large scale repairs are required. In practice, a preventive maintenance schedule may include things such as cleaning, lubrication, oil changes, adjustments, repairs, etc.

Corrective maintenance is another strategy which will be applied on a structure when a flaw is detected. The purpose of the corrective maintenance is to restore the operational capacity of the structure to an acceptable level. according to the importance of the flaw a corrective action can be applied immediately or deferred for a certain time. There are different types of actions included in corrective maintenance and the application of each depends on the defect situation. In worst case scenario replacement of the component of structure is the final solutions. 

Maintenance strategies, RD/GD-210, 2007 

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