Abstract :
Welcome to the 52nd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) - The International Symposium on Product Quality and Integrity. This year??s topic, "The Role of Reliability and Maintainability in Managing Risk," generated great interest and the Program Committee designed an excellent program to meet the theme. You have many opportunities to benefit from this year\´s program whether you are a long time practitioner or new to the assurance sciences. In addition to 5 panel sessions, there are 21 tutorials and 26 paper sessions with over 120 papers. This year RAMS for the first time offers a program with 5 tracks on Tuesday and Wednesday.
