Goals:
1. To serve as a forum for exchanging new knowledge and experience in the various fields of application of Maintenance Engineering, fostering the advancement of this speciality in our countries..
2. Promote the participation of professionals and researches, concerned with the development and application of appropriate technologies, to help private and public sectors to assure reliability, quality and service, requirements of globalization and integration into common markets.

Main Topics:
- Reliability centered maintenance.
- Maintenance engineering and environmental changes.
- Optimizing maintenance costs.
- Maintenance engineering and the continuous improvement process.
- Risk centered maintenance.
- Self driven maintenance.
- Internet supported maintenance.
- Surveillance supported predictive maintenance.
- Maintenance for quality assurance and service.
- Implementing new maintenance tools and skills.
- Training teams for maintenance.
- New maintenance technologies.
- Maintenance engineering and the XXI century.