Vicente González-Prida

It is critical to improve the asset management system implementation as well as economics and industrial decision making to ensure that a business may move smoothly internally....

The chapter explains in detail the maintenance management model (MMM) taken as a reference for the development of the book. The chapter is based on the eight phases of the MMM....

Human reliability and human error are factors that are present in all areas: industrial, economic, social, etc. All these areas require to a greater or lesser extent a physical...

Business industries depend on advanced models and tools that provide an optimal and objective decision-making process, ultimately guaranteeing improved competitiveness, reducing...

This chapter is intended to deal with the topic of standardization as a solution for risk control and decision making, mainly in high technologized context. For that purpose...

The overall perspective of this study is related to the concept of risk and uncertainty in the world today. In this sense, it considers Popper's contributions together with...

The main objective of this chapter is to suggest a methodology for the application of ISO 55000 for a water utility in order to obtain all the benefits of asset management from...

High works-in-process (WIP) levels usually involve significant losses for companies as they trigger dispatching delays, product shortages, increases in immobilized capital, and...

The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies (IJESGT) provides managers, academicians, scientists, and researchers in various government...

This Preface is included in the book Handbook of Research on Industrial Advancement in Scientific Knowledge.

The main application area of the digital transformation has been so far on the industrial and manufacturing process. Nevertheless, the concept Industry 4.0 has enormous potential...

This chapter aims to consider the effects of the new concept Industry 4.0 on decision making, particularly on the reduction of uncertainty and the risk associated with any choice...

This chapter presents a study of forecasting methods applicable to the spare parts demand faced by an automotive company that maintains a share of nearly 25% of the automotive...

Asset management is becoming increasingly important to an organization’s strategy, given its effects on cost, production, and quality. No matter the sector, important decisions...

The purpose of this chapter, is to provide a Maintenance and Reliability Management Model for the project: Design and Construction of the Third Set of Locks in the Panama Canal...

Buildings lifecycle management is an area of great interest. Due this, the R&D is being promoting worldwide looking for new effective maintenance tools and methodologies. In this...

This chapter book will analyze different systems of indicators by which maintenance management is evaluated. The models analyzed are: 1) The Balanced Scorecard. 2) The Alsyouf...

Decision makers, whether human or computer, using sensor networks to instrument information collecting necessary for decision, often face difficulties in assessing confidence...

This chapter deals with those prefabricated systems with a steady state of operation (state in which the temporal variation of the thermodynamic properties is null), describing...

This chapter analyzes the requirements that a test installation design must comply with in order to carry out the test procedures of prefabricated systems mentioned in a previous...

Buildings lifecycle management is an area of great interest. Due this, the R&D is being promoting worldwide looking for new effective maintenance tools and methodologies. In this...

Green technologies and energy-efficient practices have become two of the most prevalent issues in global society. However, many countries still lack the technology or resources...

This chapter deals with those prefabricated systems with a steady state of operation (state in which the temporal variation of the thermodynamic properties is null), describing...

This chapter analyzes the requirements that a test installation design must comply with in order to carry out the test procedures of prefabricated systems mentioned in a previous...

The International Journal of Green Computing (IJGC) provides managers, academicians, scientists, and researchers in various government, public, and private sectors coverage of...