Securing Tomorrow’s Future with Reliability and Maintainability
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 59th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium.
Edward A. Pohl, Ph.D.
As the world wrestles with the continuing economic challenges, the highly competitive global marketplace will demand highly reliable, maintainable and secure systems. I believe reliability and maintainability are the enablers for organizations that strive to make their products, processes, and services more competitive and secure. As a result, reliability and maintainability practitioners like you will be called upon to develop new ways to design secure, reliable, and maintainable systems, to collect and analyze data, to manage activities and processes, to plan and execute tests, and to formulate and evaluate mathematical models, all for the purpose of improving reliability, maintainability, and security.
For 57 years RAMS has provided a forum for reliability and maintainability practitioners to exchange best practices and learn about the latest advances in the area. This year is no different,
RAMS is offering 28 tutorials as part of the technical program. As an attendee, whether you have many years of experience in R&M or you need to learn the fundamental concepts of R&M, I am confident you will find opportunities to enhance your skills. Tutorial attendees have the option to participate in the RAMS Tutorial Certificate Program, and can use tutorials for Continuing Education Units from IEEE.
The RAMS technical program also includes 22 technical paper sessions, 6 panel discussions (including one involving the members of the RAMS Advisory Board where attendees will be able to ask industry leaders specific questions of interest), and presentations from some of our Exhibitors. The RAMS Exhibits give you the opportunity to interact with providers of R&M products and services.
I am excited to have Mr. Daniel Mellinger as our keynote speaker; Daniel will discuss some of the latest advances in quadroter helicopters including a discussion of using teams of quadrotors autonomously to build 3-d structures. His talk links nicely with the panel session on robotics from a reliability and systems safety perspective. We are also fortunate to have Mr. Lewis Von Thaer, President, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems as our banquet speaker. Mr. Von Thaer will talk about the challenges of delivering new defense capabilities in these economically challenging times.
I am glad you have chosen to come to Reno and attend the 2012 RAMS. I encourage you to get out of the hotel enjoy this beautiful area and the many different attractions Reno has to offer. Once again, thank you for attending RAMS 2012, I am confident that RAMS will exceed your expectations, and I look forward to meeting you this week!
Edward A. Pohl, Ph.D.
