The Centre bridges the gap between IIT and Industry in the fields of Friction and Wear Studies, Lubrication, Lubricants, Wear Control, Pneumatic Conveying, Maintenance Engineering, Condition Monitoring of Machines and their Elements, Non-destructive Testing, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Engineering, Failure Analysis, Vibration and Noise Engineering. The Centre has modern facilities for experimental, analytical and developmental research activities. Research facilities are available in the following areas: Tribology, Maintenance Engineering and Machine Dynamics.