By: Dan Deans | Published: February 25, 2010
If you missed attending a session at RAMS 2010 in San Jose, CA, or the entire Symposium, don’t fret, we have the solution at the RAMS Store.  Thanks to our Video Streaming Partners, technical sessions at RAMS 2010 were recorded and these archived sessions are now available for purchase. You can buy all the archived sessions for $2000 (80+ paper presentations, key note address, and our Advisory Board Panel), or you can buy them individually for $150 per session. Purchase allows you streaming video access to the sessions until June 30, 2011, and if you buy a paper session, you also receive the electronic (PDF) copies of the papers for that session. This is a great way to catch up on what you missed – so go to the RAMS Store now! See you at Disney World in January, 2011!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: February 18, 2010
This year (2011), the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)  has partnered with X-CD to implement a smoother and more robust process for accepting and reviewing abstracts, and ultimately choosing the technical content that makes this Symposium one of the premier technical getherings of its kind.   Plan on submitting an abstract to the RAMS Program Committee via the X-CD website by clicking here. You can also read more details on our paper submission process here. We look forward to reading your submittals, and thank you for taking the time to make RAMS what it is – a Symposium that delivers value because you are there presenting the latest and greatest information in the reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) engineering disciplines. And remember, this year the Symposium is at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Orlando, Florida. What a great opportunity to grow in the RAM disciplines and spend time with your family as well! See you at Disney in January, 2011!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: February 15, 2010
RAMS 2010 was a great success – 88 technical papers and over 20 technical tutorials all presented in San Jose, CA to an enthusiastic audience of RAM professionals, program managers, executive management, and others. Now we shift our focus to 2011 – the Symposium will land at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in the middle of Walt Diney World near Orlando, Florida. What a great opportunity to present your latest and greatest innovations in the world of reliability, availability, and maintainability engineering. The theme for 2011 is “The Role of Reliability and Maintainability in Design for Supportability.” We will have an exciting new process for abstract submission, review and selection – so you do not want to miss this great opportunity. Check back here at rams.org often for the link to our new abstract submission process, and also review our 2011 call for papers here. Looking forward to meeting you at Disney World in January, 2011!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: January 14, 2010
RAMS always invites captains of industry to provide our keynote address each year, and 2010 is no exception. We are blessed to have Dr. Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and a presidential appointee on the the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s staff as our speaker this year. Dr. Gilmore will be addressing many challenges and opportunities that are being addressed by the U.S. DoD in the “ilities” disciplines and supporting the many men and women that make up the DoD’s forces around the world. You can read more about Dr. Gilmore and his remarks in our 2010 Program Brochure. We are looking forward to seeing you in San Jose, 25-28 January 2010!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: January 05, 2010
New this year is the RAMS 2010 Webcast option- a way to view the Sympoisum on line from your desk, office, conference room or corporate facility. Also, given that the webcast option will be available seven days after the Symposium ends, you can attend the Symposium in person, and then upon return to your office, you can order and watch the sessions that you missed because you chose to attend other sessions at the same time. This is a great opportunity to view all of the technical session content that RAMS has to offer. Also, you can register as a single user, or register your whole office (organization), your choice. Check our Register Now page for more details. See you in San Jose!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: December 30, 2009
Don’t miss out on the excellent discounts that are available for the 2010 Annual Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Symposium. After 9 January 2010, you will have to pay full price. This is up to a $50 in savings per registrant, so, act now and don’t pay more! Prior to January 9, 2009, fees are $975 for non sponsoring society members and $875 for sponsoring society members. After January 9, 2010, it is $1025 and $925 respectively. Don’t pay more!  Navigate to the Register Now page on rams.org for more details. See you in San Jose!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: December 30, 2009
View the final program and banquet program on the Our Program page at rams.org now. The final program provides all of the detail you need to justify attending the Symposium this year, including the final details on Tutorials, Technical Sessions, Panels, the Keynote Address and the Advisory Board Panel. Also this year, the webcast of the Technical Sessions – just in case you can not travel. The banquet promises to be a meal to remember along with a value-added speaker and our annual awards. The Symposium in 2010 promises to be bigger and better than ever. Don’t forget to join us in San Jose, January 25-28, 2010.
Download the Final Program and the Banquet Program for your review now.
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By: Dan Deans | Published: December 24, 2009
We have been promising, and now it is here. Vist the new RAMS Online Store to register for our webcast option at the Symposium in San Jose, 25-28 January. You can register for a single user, or choose the group option, whichever suits your needs!  The webcast features the “C” and “D” technical session tracks (20 out of 22 sessions) at the Symposium, and also includes the keynote address and the Advisory Board panel, all for one low price. You get four days of detailed reliability, availability, and maintainability engineering information from many different industries and specialty areas. And, in addition to the live webcast, the package will give viewers access to the session videos for seven days after the end of the symposium–so you don’t have to miss a thing. This is a great opportunity to see the Symposium from your desk or with your project or program team and gain a tremendous amount of knowledge on how to improve your program or product. To register, visit Register Now page on rams.org and hit the big red button! See you in San Jose!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: December 15, 2009
Time is running out to qualify for early registration discounts on attendance at the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. Take advantage now of the lower registration options while they are still available. If you are a member of one of our 10 Sponsoring Societies, you receive a $150 discount off our low registration fee if  you register by 9 January 2010 at our registration site on Rams.org/register-now/. Also, if you register yourself and bring five of your colleagues, essentially, two will attend free! You can also take advantage of our Corporate registration where any number of folks from the same organization can attend the Symposium one at a time – allowing you to pick and choose the sessions you want to attend.   Hurry, don’t miss these excellent discounts on this all important training and networking event!
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By: Dan Deans | Published: December 15, 2009
In preperation for the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium to be held in San Jose,CA, January 25-28 2010; our technical program has been finalized. Details for the tutorials have been posted for several months, and you can view those details on the Core Tutorials and Elective Tutorials pages at Rams.org. Now you can also view the details associated with nearly 100 papers on subjects ranging from design for reliability, maintainability, and availability, analysis, modeling and simulation, to business concerns, to reliability growth and optimization, and many many more on our Technical Sessions page at Rams.org. Keep checking back there for updates, and plan on joining us at the Symposium at the DoubleTree Airport Hotel in fabulous San Jose, CA!
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