Advances in Asset Management: Strategies, Technologies, and Industry Applications

Part 1: Risk Management and Qualitative Analysis.- 1. RQCM: Risk Qualitative Criticality Matrix. Case study: Ophthalmic lens production systems in Costa Rica.- 2. Factors affecting the quality of network services in emerging telecoms operating environment and markets.- Part 2: Technology and Innovation in Asset Management.- 3. A Conceptual Implementation Process for Smart Maintenance Technologies.- A Framework for Assessing Emerging Technology Risks in Industrial Asset.- Part 3: Asset Health and Maintenance Strategies.- 5. Challenges on an Asset Health Index (AHI) Calculation.- 6. General Bases to Hierarchy Definition for Digital Assets in Railway Context.- 7. Determination of the exact economic time for the component replacement using condition-based maintenance.- Part 4: Industry-Specific Asset Management and Other Considerations.- 8. Audit models for asset management, maintenance, and reliability processes: A case study applied to the desalination plant.- 9. Audit Model for Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability Processes: A case study applied to pulp mill sector.- 10. The Role of Eco-Driving and Wearable Sensors in Industry 4.0.

Adolfo Crespo Márquez is currently Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Seville, Department of Industrial Management. He holds a Ph.D. with Honors in Industrial Engineering from this same University. He is included in the Stanford University's list of world top-scientists in 2023 and he received the Spanish Maintenance Award from the Spanish Maintenance Association (AEM) in 2020. With research works published in many top journals, he is the author of 8 books and Editor of 6 books with Springer, Aenor, IGI Global and INGEMAN, about maintenance, warranty, supply chain and assets management. Prof. Crespo is Fellow Director of ISEAM, Editor-in-Chief of EAMR Springer Book Series and led the Spanish Research Network on Assets Management and the Spanish Committee for Maintenance Standardization (1995-2003). He also leads the SIM research group related to smart maintenance systems and has extensively participated in many engineering and consulting projectsfor different companies, for the Spanish Departments of Defense, Science and Education as well as for the European Commission (IPTS). He is the President of INGEMAN (a National Association for the Development of Maintenance Engineering in Spain) since 2002.

Georges Abdul-Nour is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Industrial engineering, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. He received his Bachelors and Master Degrees in IE from the Université de Moncton, N.B.' Canada. He completed his PhD at Texas Tech University; Lubbock Texas, U.S.A. Dr. Abdul-Nour authored and co-authored 10 books and books chapters, and more than 450-refereed papers in international journals and conferences proceeding, and technical reports. His research interest is in fields such as Intelligent Asset Management, Complexes Systems Resilience, Reliability and Maintenance, Intelligent Manufacturing, I4.0 and I5.0, Lean-Six Sigma, and JIT (TPS). He is a member of the Editorial Board of