The Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering was founded in 1994 by Professor Andrew Jardine with a vision to connect research arising from inside the university with real-world applications.

Since its founding, C-MORE has expanded and evolved, using its combined industry and government funding to perform valuable research in asset management in condition-based maintenance, spares management, maintenance and repair contracts, and failure-finding intervals for protective devices. Simply stated, C-MORE's goal in working with some of the world's leading asset-intensive industries such as utilities, mining and the military is to take advantage of their existing data to make good evidence-based management decisions.