Important: RAMS® Symposium Date Change

The RAMS Management Committee, together with the RAMS Board of Directors, looked at the effect that COVID-19 might have upon the RAMS 2021 January event since mid-year of 2020. Many had predictions, but no one had facts. We made the commitment then to base our decisions and planning upon the data as it became available. As you all are aware, the COVID-19 community spread surges have reached levels that make it very difficult to host the conference in a safe manner in January 2021. Therefore, with support from the venue Rosen Plaza® Hotel, RAMS is now announcing a move of the RAMS 2021 Symposium from its current Jan 25 - 28, 2021 to the new date of May 24 - 27, 2021 at Rosen Plaza® Hotel, Orlando Florida. You might recognize that the new RAMS week ends just before the Memorial Day Holiday weekend if you wanted to have your family join you for many of the World Class attractions found in Beautiful Orlando! Also, some more great news. Rosen Plaza room rate for general attendees goes down to $129/night until those rooms are taken.

All symposium programs will be adjusted accordingly to accommodate this date change. Please contact the Rosen Plaza® Hotel, (407) 996-9700, to confirm your reservation is moved to the new dates and the rate is adjusted. Please also check with your airline and request your flight reservation to be moved to the new dates. You'll find the cancellation or change is, likely, complimentary.

We promise to keep you informed on RAMS details throughout the Spring as we see the COVID curves decrease and the world-wide vaccinations roll out.

-- Sean D. Carter, RAMS 2021 General Chairman

67th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

The 67th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS®) will be held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando FL during the week of May 24-27, 2021. The theme for RAMS® 2021 is “RAM in the Era of Big Data”.

With the advent and emergence of significant data availability for fielded equipment, reliability assessments can now be accomplished through the collection and timely analysis of equipment-specific field data and health monitoring systems. Engaging advanced techniques, such as machine learning and other advanced analytics, with these data sets enable the state-of-the-art to evolve to a much more proactive, effective, and cost-efficient reliability management approach.

With this in mind, we invite you to share your theoretical or practical findings of your research, engineering case studies, success stories, lessons learned, R&M based analyses and simulations, or R&M discoveries at RAMS® 2021 Orlando. Tell us how you are designing, optimizing, and supporting systems (both hardware and software) through the execution of RAMS disciplines.

The Reliability Society is a technical Society within the IEEE, and supports professionals engaged in assuring reliability in the engineering disciplines of hardware, software, and human factors throughout the total life cycle. IEEE-RS co-sponsors RAMS because of its interest in contributing to the planning and the selection of the system architecture, HW & SW design implementation, materials, processes, and components; followed by verifying the selections made by thorough analysis and test and sustainment. Find out more at http://rs.ieee.org/.

IEEE

The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) specializes in accelerated test methods; laboratory facilities and instrumentation necessary for field measurements, product reliability growth, demonstration and durability testing. IEST supports the technology development related to environmental test controls and methodologies; environmental stress screening; Highly Accelerated Limit (Life) Testing (HALT/HASS); and is the owner of MIL-STD-810. It is one of the founding societies for RAMS with emphasis on all aspects of environmental testing for product evaluation. Find out more at http://www.iest.org/.

IEST

IISE is the leading provider of cutting-edge industrial and systems engineering continuing education and a decades-long supporter of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. It is a leading source of productivity improvement information via publications and live events. Member benefits include a magazine, professional development programs, an online career center, social networks, industry- and discipline-specific societies and divisions, such as the Quality Control & Reliability Division, chapters, and affinity programs. Find out more at http://www.iise.org/Home/.

IISE

The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS®) is one of the most comprehensive gatherings of R&M professionals held today. Attendance at the symposium is a unique opportunity for the System Safety Engineer to learn new and innovative ideas proposed by complimentary disciplines and how these ideas can be leveraged to enhance their own system safety efforts. The program is focused on the latest technical practices and procedures presented through technical papers and tutorials. Attendance at RAMS provides ISSS members the opportunity to learn new techniques, as well as new perspectives and networking/communication opportunities resulting in overall improvements to the design, production and operation of safer products. Find out more at http://www.system-safety.org/.

ISSS

The American Society for Quality is a leading technical society for quality and reliability, provides a broad range of resources, training, and certification in for quality and reliability engineers. The Reliability Division of ASQ is a long time sponsor of RAMS. Find out more at http://asqrd.org/.

ASQ RD

The Society of Automotive Engineers is a co-sponsor of RAMS, and is the ultimate knowledge source for mobility engineering. It supports its members through personal and professional growth opportunities, networking, and the opportunity to engage in industrial and educational leadership. Find out more at http://www.sae.org/.

SAE

The Society of Reliability Engineers is a technical society dedicated to promoting professional development and technical advancement in reliability engineering. Chapters are active throughout the United States and internationally. Find out more at http://www.sre.org/.

SRE

ECD is the Electronics and Communications Division of ASQ, one of 25 such industry and topic communities of the Society. Its members are quality and reliability professionals concerned with all types and levels of electrical, electronic, and communication products. The mission of ECD is to provide member benefits that will grow and retain a diverse global quality community from across the electronics and communications industries. The excellence of the presentations and tutorials makes RAMS® one of the most comprehensive events for the reliability and maintainability engineering disciplines and this aligns very well with the ECD. Find out more at http://asq.org/ec.

ASQ ECD