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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please distribute this conference announcement. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rong Pan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2023 RELIABILITY, MAINTENANCE & MANAGING RISK CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(RMMR2023)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">July 27-28, 2023, Minneapolis, Minnesota</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">R&M Resilience to a Rapidly Changing Environment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We invite you to submit abstracts for the presentations at the 3<sup>rd</sup> Annual Reliability, Maintenance & Managing
Risk Conference (RMMR2023) to be held on July 27-28, 2023 (with pre-conference courses to be offered on July 26), in Minneapolis, MN. RMMR2023 is sponsored by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Reliability and Risk Division (RRD). It is a forum for
the quality and reliability practitioners, asset and risk managers, statisticians, and academic researchers to come together to share and learn from each other. The goal of this conference is to discuss and disseminate practical tools and methods for reliability
improvement and risk reduction in industry, service, military, government, and non-profit sectors.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topics include but are not limited to the following:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you are interested in presenting an applied or expository paper or case study in any of these topics, please submit
an abstract online or email it to the program chair listed below. Please follow the suggested abstract format and indicate the expected competence level of your presentation. The program committee welcomes any suggestions for special session topics or speakers.
For any suggestion, please contact the conference chair or the program chair. Please visit
</span><a href="http://www.asqrrd.org/rmmr_conference"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.asqrrd.org/rmmr_conference</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for the latest news
of the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Chair: Carol Parendo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Arizona State University, Arizona, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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