[SystemSafety] Another academic safety workshop / why not industrialists ?

[Stachour, Paul D BIS]

Peter, Martyn, and all,

    For me, who works at a company that builds safety-systems, the answer is "Not much".

I suspect that is true for others as well.  Like many industrialists, the criteria for me to attend
any out-of-town conference is that I must write, submit, and have accepted a paper to give at such conference.
However, getting clearance for such a paper from Engineering, Marketing, Legal, etc., not only at the factory
where I work, but from the divisional headquarters as well, is a very time-consuming and lengthy process.

   And the "lessons learned" kind of paper, which indicates what works for us, and what does not work for us;
at least in the time/effort required for a given technology and the respective results, is very unlikely
to be approved, since it could very well be considered as "giving away some of our company's advantages."

   In particular, if I write something on the order of:
In developing products A & B, we used technology T on A, but not on B, and found that T either was very helpful,
or that the use of T had no effect on our defect-rates.
   Then
1) That is the kind of experiential paper that I as an industrialist would consider quite useful.
2) That topic has almost no chance of being approved.

Regards, ..Paul S.

Paul D. Stachour 
Software Quality Assurance 
Detector Electronics Corporation 
A UTC Fire & Security Company 
6901 West 110th Street, Bloomington, MN 55438 USA 
952-941-5665, x8409 
Paul.Stachour at det-tronics.com 
www.det-tronics.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of Martyn Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:41 AM
To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: [External] Re: [SystemSafety] Another academic safety workshop

It's a pity, of course, but what's the incentive for an industrialist to give up the required time (and sometimes travel costs) to PC duties?

Martyn

On 14/01/2015 09:05, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> Is it just me, or are others sceptical about a - yet another - 
> workshop on safety which has only academics on the PC?
>
> PBL

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