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Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission

The Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) exists to advance reliability and maintenance education and practices within the academic and industrial communities. We create opportunities for member companies, students, faculty, and industry to achieve exceptional value through a comprehensive program of education, industry projects, research, and information sharing.

Our Vision

The RMC is the trusted and premier source of people, knowledge, and research. Our students, faculty, training partners and company participants are recognized for their expertise in reliability and maintenance / maintainability.

Conferences, training events and education are recognized acknowledged as the highest quality source of reliability and maintenance best practices information regarding people / change management, process and products. Included are all related physical assets (machinery, equipment and buildings), tools, technologies and culture.

Assessments, development of improvement roadmaps and implementation of research generates solutions that are effective at solving problems and contributing towards business excellence (top quartile performance).

Our Core Values

Leadership

Providing a strategic direction and vision for the Reliability and Maintenance community and initiating the supporting activities.

Excellence

Delivering consistently high quality services in all we say and do.

Relationships

Creating the environment for growth and development between member companies, students, faculty, and industry with integrity and mutual respect.

Learning and Continual Improvement

Continuously developing, expanding, and sharing the body of knowledge. Using data driven decisions for continuous improvement.

Implementation

Bridging the understanding of issues facing industry and academia. Making learnings and practicable applications readily available.

Innovation

Finding effective solutions to difficult problems.