Editorial to selected papers from the 15th IMEKO TC10 Workshop on Technical Diagnostics – “Technical Diagnostics in Cyber-Physical Era”

Technical diagnostics is taking in the years an increasingly important role. Behind this, the fact that in high-tech industry and in different fields of application it is mandatory to fulfil the requirements related to diagnostics, reliability, maintainability and logistic support as well as risk and safety assessment. The capability to monitor and diagnose a component, a system, an equipment or an industrial plant – in general term, an item – with the aim to verify its functions represents the starting point for more complex RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) evaluations and assessment.